Juan Soto out Opening Day with COVID-19

[mqr]

6 minutes ago, fathom said:

But it sounds like it’s been 48-72 hours, which is insane.

In this case it was. The test Soto got back today was from Tuesday. It's been 4 days since the last time he tested negative. They expect today's results Saturday morning. 

Playing tonight is a huuuuuuuuge gamble

Edited July 23, 2020 by mqr

[Balta1701]

33 minutes ago, fathom said:

But it sounds like it’s been 48-72 hours, which is insane. In the real world, you’re supposed to quarantine if you’re in contact with a positive person.  In this case, you’re right back on the field while waiting for results. Just seems idiotic to me.

Part of MLB's official plan is that their game is a game with distancing built right in. Maintain spacing in dugouts, have people with masks on, and the game takes care of itself by having people spread out so the chances of broad transmission are low. You don't cancel an official game because a player tests positive that day under that setup.

It's not an unreasonable strategy and if it was going to fail dramatically there's a good chance we'd already have seen it fail during ST. 

[southsider2k5]

Yikes.  Any chance he could have caught it again or a different strain?

[Chisoxfn]

8 minutes ago, Balta1701 said:

Part of MLB's official plan is that their game is a game with distancing built right in. Maintain spacing in dugouts, have people with masks on, and the game takes care of itself by having people spread out so the chances of broad transmission are low. You don't cancel an official game because a player tests positive that day under that setup.

It's not an unreasonable strategy and if it was going to fail dramatically there's a good chance we'd already have seen it fail during ST. 

Yeah - they are playing apart from each other and doing things outdoors, etc.  Risks are still pretty low, even if a player had it. Non existent, no, but that was never going to be the case anyway. All of the sports are assuming people are going to get it, but they are trying to manage it as quick as possible to prevent the entire team or mass parts of the team from getting it.

Football & Basketball have a ton more contact and much more activity with multiple parties in very tight spaces, so that is a whole nother story.  

[Balta1701]

5 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:

Yikes.  Any chance he could have caught it again or a different strain?

This is a complicated question. There are confirmed cases presented by doctors where someone tested positive in March, had weak or no symptoms, they went away, and now they’ve tested positive again in July with far stronger symptoms. There are several possibilities:

1. The first test was a false positive, their early symptoms were some other illness, and they only just now got it.

2. The virus somehow went dormant in the people for a few months then flared back up. There are viruses that can do that.

3. The person had it, and because of the weak symptoms they did not develop a strong immune response, allowing them to be reinfected soon after.

Any of those could fit Soto, and it is also possible that the most recent test was just dead/remnant virus in his system from an earlier infection. Right now it is unknown whether the virus can really do any of those things above, and it will be a while to know if any of those are possible.