Gopher Athletics has conducted 1,406 COVID-19 tests, 43 total positive test results.

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Per U of MN press release:


Minnesota Announces Updated COVID-19 Testing Numbers

Gopher Athletics has conducted 1,406 COVID-19 tests since June. There have been 43 total positive test results.

Student-athletes who test positive are entered into protocol and are asked to self-isolate. During this time they have access to all necessary resources and are in daily communication with members of Minnesota’s athletic medicine staff. Student-athletes undergo additional testing and screening before they may physically participate in team activities. A team physician must also clear the student-athlete before they are permitted to return to athletic activity.

Contract tracing was conducted and any individual who was potentially exposed was asked to quarantine to help prevent spread of the virus.
 

43 people within Gopher athletics is actually a pretty high number, no?
 

hello-world said:
43 people within Gopher athletics is actually a pretty high number, no?
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You have to be careful how you interpret this. First of all, its .031% of tests positive. You could have had the same person test positive more than once, you might even get the same person test positive 3-5 times before they finally test negative. So we really don't know how many people tested positive, just the amount of positive tests. I think I have that right?
 

HoustonTXGopher said:
You have to be careful how you interpret this. First of all, its .031% of tests positive. You could have had the same person test positive more than once, you might even get the same person test positive 3-5 times before they finally test negative. So we really don't know how many people tested positive, just the amount of positive tests. I think I have that right?
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Might want to check your decimal placement...
 

hello-world said:
43 people within Gopher athletics is actually a pretty high number, no?
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43 test results, not 43 people. Big, big difference. A dozen or so healthy young college students tested positive for a virus they never would have known they had unless they were tested. Better consider locking it all down again
 


HoustonTXGopher said:
You have to be careful how you interpret this. First of all, its .031% of tests positive. You could have had the same person test positive more than once, you might even get the same person test positive 3-5 times before they finally test negative. So we really don't know how many people tested positive, just the amount of positive tests. I think I have that right?
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Yeah, that's kinda what I mean because quoting the number of positive tests versus the number of actual tests doesn't really mean much if 43 people tested positive. That's a ton of people regardless of the number of tests administered.

But if it's like you said and it was like 9 people that tested positive 5 times then that's a totally different story. Overall, that number doesn't mean much and the fact that they quoted it versus the total number of tests leads me to believe that they kinda 'want' you to do that math if you catch my drift.
 
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hello-world said:
Yeah, that's kinda what I mean because quoting the number of positive tests versus the number of actual tests doesn't really mean much if 43 people tested positive. That's a ton of people regardless of the number of tests administered.

But if it's like you said and it was like 9 people that tested positive 5 times then that's a totally different story. Overall, that number doesn't mean much and the fact that they quoted it versus the total number of tests leads me to believe that they kinda 'want' you to do that math if you catch my drift.
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It's not like they aren't testing those who are negative multiple times as well. Positives should trigger contact testing.
 

PMWinSTP said:
It's not like they aren't testing those who are negative multiple times as well. Positives should trigger contact testing.
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Great point.

I believe in order to come back, someone who tests positive once has to then test negative multiple times before being cleared to return.
 










Bayfieldgopher said:
And how many of the 43 have been hospitalized? You never see that number.
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Because that's not what's important. Contagiousness, and the potential for those asymptomatic or mild cases to spread it to other, more vulnerable people, is what matters.
 

MplsGopher said:
Because that's not what's important. Contagiousness, and the potential for those asymptomatic or mild cases to spread it to other, more vulnerable people, is what matters.
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Can that not be said for literally every communicable disease on the planet? The common cold is contagious. The flu is contagious.
 

GoGoGopher12 said:
Can that not be said for literally every communicable disease on the planet? The common cold is contagious. The flu is contagious.
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I said to more vulnerable people, who would then become severely ill or die because of covid. That happens at a much higher rate in those people, than with the common cold or seasonal flu.
 

Pretty sure those vulnerable don't need to be around the flu either.
 

MplsGopher said:
I said to more vulnerable people, who would then become severely ill or die because of covid. That happens at a much higher rate in those people, than with the common cold or seasonal flu.
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Are the players going to be working at LTCFs? The virus needs a vector or close proximity to transmit. It doesn’t have legs or wings. Let’s use common sense and science.

You realize most people are still working. Not you, of course.
 


Pompous Elitist said:
Are the players going to be working at LTCFs? The virus needs a vector or close proximity to transmit. It doesn’t have legs or wings. Let’s use common sense and science.

You realize most people are still working. Not you, of course.
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Caretakers at LTCFs are humans, last I checked. Those are the people who, unwittingly, transmitted the virus to those who have fallen sick and tragically died in those facilities, despite the best efforts of their governments to protect them.

And those caretakers get infected themselves from other people. Etc.
 

MplsGopher said:
Because that's not what's important. Contagiousness, and the potential for those asymptomatic or mild cases to spread it to other, more vulnerable people, is what matters.
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Huh? Of course it does as it relates to the impact of the virus. How sick are these athletes? If their symptoms are minor then life goes on. Does it turn into more serious health issues later in life
 

Bayfieldgopher said:
Huh? Of course it does as it relates to the impact of the virus. How sick are these athletes? If their symptoms are minor then life goes on. Does it turn into more serious health issues later in life
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Already replied to this. Went over your head, I guess.

Just because the athlete doesn’t get sick, doesn’t mean they can’t infect someone else who will get sick.

That’s what matters.
 

Whatever happened to slowing the curve or just don't want to overwhelm hospitals?
 


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