A tweet was also deleted stating something about how they were removed from the official hotel in the morning (Something like that). My guess is that tweet suggests they knew of the positive test before the Junior Pairs event which would open a can of worms for USFS I would think.
If You are vaxxed, the US does not require quarantine. I don’t know why people are pushing for others to withdraw due to close contact. Honestly, if this is a mild case and they both get it, at least K/F would have increased immunity for Beijing.
Maybe they should have gone the Canadian route and saved themselves the headache?
No. They do not. Not even the same sheet of ice. And, the Rinks protocol are very strict.
My thoughts haha. If it’s mild it’s one less thing US FS had to worry about in Beijing.
What good does removing spectators from the arena do? Brandon still needed to travel to Nashville. It's not like he could avoid any and all contact with people and drive from LA to Nashville.Maybe they should have gone the Canadian route and saved themselves the headache?
And he has about 18 days to test negative. Hopefully he will be able to do so. I do have to agree with those who think that keeping them out of the Team Event might be wise, if this is a more serious case like the one Ashley had last summer.
I meant the fact that they aren't testing skaters for Canadian Nationals.
Ohhhh! Gotcha! I suppose a "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil" approach might have been far less of a PR nightmare.
Coughing doesn't imply C19 anymore than it implies a basic cold.
And, by your logic, should all of the SCOB skaters be presumed to have C19 also since they've been wearing masks during their practices, including their program run-throughs?
I will grant you that she (and probably Chris, as her spouse) should not have been at the arena today, even if they were merely waiting on Brandon's test results to come back. I'm not sure that restricting Meno & Sand from the arena is feasible since they have so many junior and senior pairs teams that they are coaching, though I suppose they could have found someone to assist with the coaching duties until they at least had negative tests come back.
Maybe the USFS is just acknowledging what so many of us have already figured out... You can get Omicron anywhere, from anyone, and it's probably going to be a mild case if you're vaccinated. At least they are still making the teams/skaters withdraw if they do test positive.
The point I was trying to make is that by not staying put, anything you do puts you at risk of contracting it and there were plenty of opportunities to get sick.
If you are addressing me asking a question all I got for you is
What are you talking about? I'm not addressing anything you've said in this thread from the moronic suppositions I see here. But okay.If you are addressing me asking a question all I got for you is
OK. That is not encouraging. I was just going by the knowledge I gained from family members who got YKW and the time it took them to seroconvert, IOW test neg. again.People who have CV19 may still test positive weeks or even months later--way beyond the time when they're symptomatic or contagious.
Clinical Guidance for Recovered/Previously Positive COVID-19 Patients
Common questions about recovered/previously positive COVID-19 patientsbit.ly
My understanding is that this has to do with availability of testing in Canada.
True, but if they are all around each other and asymptomatic spreading it to each other, that’s no safer than US Nationals. I mean they all had to fly there, and are in hotels together. Is the hotel in Canada just for the people competing? I mean, Brandon is vaxxed and boosted according to Instagram and had a negative test before leaving, which is more than the Canadian competitors are required to have.
The Canadians competitors have to be vaccinated to enter the rink. But yeah, the lack of testing availability is going to make this no safer in terms of risk while getting from A to B, and for those athletes, they are risking infection even closer to the Olympics.
Yep, I knew they had to be vaxxed, I was saying that Brandon basically took more precautions than are required at Canadian nationals and still caught it.
However in Canada, you must be vaccinated to fly, to enter the hotel, there is no indoor dining, no food at all allowed in rink, except water during practice and events, so all masked at pretty much all the time at rink And much higher overall vaccine rates. Masks are required in all indoor settings . Lots of people wear them outdoors too.
I don't think any set of rules is going to be entirely fail-safe. And there are some people who simply will refuse to follow the rules. But, I agree that the rules do help. And rules can set a culture and a sense of understanding if explained properly. (Masking practices do vary a lot around the world and not necessarily because of the amount of spread.) I know plenty of people who will insist that they are being very careful because they are doing what is legally required and what others are doing. My sister says she is being very careful and following all the rules. She is following the rules, but she took her unvaccinated kids to a restaurant two days before they went to stay with the in laws for a big family Christmas get together that included four elderly family members in poor health. Similarly, she planned to go to a New Year's Eve party until the host canceled due a COVID infection.
First out winter olympian? What's Eric Radford? Chopped liver? And there was another out athlete at the last games, American I think, who Eric connected with.
Dying to know the pair girl who wouldn’t skate with him ….
