Because many youth sports leagues do not fall under a national governing body, decisions about returning to play will likely be based on local and state recommendations.
"Those sports that are likely to have a lot of contact – basketball, football, soccer – are ones where there’s a greater potential, if somebody’s infected, for spread from person to person," said Davidson Hamer, a professor at Boston University School of Public Health and School of Medicine and physician at Boston Medical Center."Other sports like tennis, it’s a lot easier to keep social distancing.
But this is actually one advantage that youth sports have over professional sports, according to Lauren Sauer, the director of operations with the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response. "I think the adaptability and the flexibility of how youth sports are implemented, so to speak, actually works to benefit."Ryan Demmer, an assistant professor of epidemiology and community health at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health, noted that it is still unclear how coronavirus affects kids. Though they are not being hospitalized or dying at the same rates as other segments of the population, he said, they are not immune.
"I just think we need to be really cautious about it," Demmer said."We’re at a point where it’s still fairly risky, because we really haven’t seen testing to a degree where we can do more testing in these settings where groups are coming together."
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