Steeler game-COVID

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(11-02-2020, 04:09 PM)Tomkat Wrote: https://medical.mit.edu/covid-19-updates/2020/10/exposed-to-covid-19-how-soon-contagious

"However, based on what we know about the incubation period for this virus, there’s almost no chance that your sister could have passed on the virus to your family members just 24 hours after being exposed herself."

"But you would still expect there to be a few days between the time a person is exposed and infected and the time they begin actively shedding virus. If we figure that infected people who become sick typically start experiencing symptoms a bit more than five days after exposure, we can calculate that infectiousness would, on average, begin rising sharply about three days post exposure. In other words, it’s safe to say that it would be exceedingly rare for anyone to transmit the virus earlier than two days post exposure."

(Emphasis added by me)

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Put simply, if you are merely exposed to covid, you are not instantly contagious.  In fact, there's no guarantee you'll be infected, at all.  It depends on how much virus you are exposed to, and for how long.  Viruses have an "incubation" period, so if you are exposed to only a tiny amount of virus, your body can most likely fight it off.
EXPOSURE + TIME is the critical factor.  You are extremely unlikely to get infected from an infected person merely passing by.

READ THIS ARTICLE, it is very informative.
https://www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them

Thanks.

If that is true vs what I found, then it sounds like the number of potential players affected could be much lower. Both seem valid given from Harvard Medical and MIT Medical.

One other thing they do mention in your article is this...

Quote:Your sister, on the other hand, isn’t that lucky. Since she knows she was exposed to the virus on Sunday evening, she should self-isolate for 14 days from that time to make sure that she does not infect anyone else if she is, in fact, infected.

So if the team wants to be extra-careful, they COULD all isolate for the next 14 days to be sure, but they probably won't do that. Probably the most realistic thing to expect is to have team isolate for the next 2-3 days while tests are conducted and results retrieved before return to the team facility.