MLS is Back Tournament - 2020

[EganSoccerWords]

Reporting with @samstejskal: Multiple sources confirm that Columbus has a positive COVID-19 case. Test and result both came down yesterday. Team arrived in Orlando on Sunday.

Obviously concerning that a team got a positive result multiple days after arriving.

— Paul Tenorio (@PaulTenorio) July 2, 2020

 

[Gotham Gator]

The question is not when did the positive test occur. It’s when did the last negative test occur.

It takes up to 5 days for a person to test positive for Covid (can be as little as 2-3). This person could easily have arrived in Florida with the virus on Saturday and tested negative that day.

 

[danger]

Whoa. Vela and Chicharito out? that'll make it a lot easier!

I could be wrong but I don't think it's confirmed yet. So far just a rumor. But considering all the teams need to be in Orlando by the end of the weekend, we'll probably get confirmed answers relatively soon.

I haven’t seen anything confirming it and as recently as Monday, the ExtraTime podcast was asking Taylor Twellman to wager on whether Vela would play (he said 60/40 or 70/30 he doesn’t play)
Edit: and here’s Jeff Carlisle on ESPN saying Vela is leaning towards opting out but not 100% sure based on “sources” -shrug-

 

[EganSoccerWords]

The question is not when did the positive test occur. It’s when did the last negative test occur.

It takes up to 5 days for a person to test positive for Covid (can be as little as 2-3). This person could easily have arrived in Florida with the virus on Saturday and tested negative that day.

Yeah, it just seems that the protocol for entering the bubble is inadequate. If you aren't going to have people quarantine for 14 days, stuff like this is going to happen.

 

[NYCFC_Dan]

Reporting from outside the bubble I was exposed to someone who tested positive. Last time we had contact was 5 days ago but exposure was likely 6-7 days. At a test site right now. 2 hour wait and I might not even get a test if they run out.

 

[Schwallacus]

Reporting from outside the bubble I was exposed to someone who tested positive. Last time we had contact was 5 days ago but exposure was likely 6-7 days. At a test site right now. 2 hour wait and I might not even get a test if they run out.

Hoping you don't have it, but if you do I hope it's only a minor cough/cold type level. Best of luck getting tested too, I hope they don't run out of kits.

 

[NYCFC_Dan]

Hoping you don't have it, but if you do I hope it's only a minor cough/cold type level. Best of luck getting tested too, I hope they don't run out of kits.

I’m two hours in right now and probably another hour left. I haven’t had any symptoms at all and it’s been a week. Will keep y’all updated.
just from sitting in the parking lot with about 100 other cars it doesn’t look like anyone is sick. A lot of people getting out of their cars and walking around And they all look healthy. Lots of young people as well. Could be why we are having so many positives and very few deaths. I believe the person who I was exposed to is 40. Almost asymptomatic. He had a headache/fever and got tested but that was the worst of it.

 

[EganSoccerWords]

I’m two hours in right now and probably another hour left. I haven’t had any symptoms at all and it’s been a week. Will keep y’all updated.
just from sitting in the parking lot with about 100 other cars it doesn’t look like anyone is sick. A lot of people getting out of their cars and walking around And they all look healthy. Lots of young people as well. Could be why we are having so many positives and very few deaths. I believe the person who I was exposed to is 40. Almost asymptomatic. He had a headache/fever and got tested but that was the worst of it.

The waiting is the worse part. Took weeks for my wife to get tested, and then get the results. Hopefully everything turns out ok.

 

[NYCFC_Dan]

The waiting is the worse part. Took weeks for my wife to get tested, and then get the results. Hopefully everything turns out ok.

They’ve been turning them in 5-7 days. Nephew got his back in 6. He was negative. The person who I was exposed to got it back in 7.

 

[413Blue]

They’ve been turning them in 5-7 days. Nephew got his back in 6. He was negative. The person who I was exposed to got it back in 7.

Yea it looks like this surge is spiking demand. I've been able to schedule two tests at CVS with just an hour or so of lead time and the results came back in 2 days the first time, and 1 day the second time. Now their website is saying 5-7 days for results.
Could be holiday related, but I'm betting there has been a large increase in testing demand from healthier people.

 

[NYCFC_Dan]

Yea it looks like this surge is spiking demand. I've been able to schedule two tests at CVS with just an hour or so of lead time and the results came back in 2 days the first time, and 1 day the second time. Now their website is saying 5-7 days for results.
Could be holiday related, but I'm betting there has been a large increase in testing demand from healthier people.

For CVS locations down here and most clinics they won’t test you without symptoms. The drive up locations also require appointment and the earliest I was able to find was Monday. I found one of the few that doesn’t. Going on 4 hours now. About to get my test.

 

[NYCFC_Dan]

Test isn’t pleasant at all but not as bad as i thought it would be.

 

[FredMertz]

Test isn’t pleasant at all but not as bad as i thought it would be.

I think we're not too far away from a non-invasive test. My daughter is heading off to college for her Freshman year and the college has promised regular, non-brain tickling testing.

I have chronic sinus issues so I get the noodle cam up my nose pretty regularly, but this was something else entirely.

 

[canchon]

Yikes

https://twitter.com/x/status/1279217163526524928

 

[Keith Putnam]

Yikes

https://twitter.com/x/status/1279217163526524928

The rumor mill is beginning to churn that the tournament opener may be postponed.

As Mike Goodman likes to say:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1279402931947741185

 

[Keith Putnam]

Related:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1279430063994396674

 

[danger]

What's the deal with that MLS is Back Insider twitter account, it's an anonymous player/staff person in the bubble? Also, from TR:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1278827005782437890

 

[NYCFC_Dan]

What's the deal with that MLS is Back Insider twitter account, it's an anonymous player/staff person in the bubble? Also, from TR:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1278827005782437890

They’re retweeting/sharing videos from player/staff personal accounts.

 

[mgarbowski]

In retrospect they should have required all teams to arrive within 1-2 days of each other, instead of spread out over a week or so as it actually happened. That way, all the initial arrival positive tests get announced at once, as do the ones from a few days later that may or may not have been caused by exposure in the bubble. This lets everyone make a clear, rational decision as to whether to go forward while knowing all the numbers at once. Instead, everyone is subjected to the drip, drip, drip of new results, many first publicized by an anonymous Twitter account, which seems regularly to be accurate, but the process hardly inspires confidence.

 

[EganSoccerWords]

If you need to see how many people get infected to make a "sound, rational" decision about whether to you can hold an event, the sound, rational decision is to not hold the event.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1279800112894693377