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[Sport] The NBA assumes that there will be more positives: "The worrying thing is that they are in the bubble"


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El comisionado Adam Silver, en una conferencia de prensa.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver admitted Tuesday that there is concern about the possibility of positive cases for COVID-19 in the 'bubble' they have established in Orlando, Florida, where they hope to resume the competition of the Regular season 2019-20. While several NBA teams, of the 22 that are going to compete, traveled to Florida this Tuesday, Silver said that if after the quarantine established within the campus mounted on the grounds of the Walt Disney World Resort, If they gave positive cases to COVID-19, it would show that their plan would fail.
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In a virtual interview with Fortune Brainstorm Health, Silver explained that the NBA expects more positive cases of coronavirus to appear as teams arrive on the NBA campus this week, but once there, all staff will be screened and will need to contact quarantine for at least two days. "We won't be surprised when they get to Orlando for the first time if we have some additional positive players," Silver admitted. "What would be more worrying is that once the players enter this campus and go through our quarantine period, if they had a positive result, we would know that there is a problem." Silver was categorical when pointing out that if this were the case " we would know that there is essentially a hole in our bubble or that the quarantine or campus is not working in some way and so that would be very concerning. "The NBA commissioner expressed that any significant number of positive cases within the protected campus could result in A second NBA season shutdown. Several teams such as Brooklyn Nets, Denver Nuggets, LA Clippers, Miami Heat, Milwaukee Bucks, Sacramento Kings have closed their training facilities in the past week due to positive cases of coronavirus among their respective groups. travel. "We started evaluating all of our teams about two weeks ago and, as we reported, we had a significant number of positiv cases you, "Silver admitted. "I think it's a bigger representation of what's happening across the country." The Florida Department of Health reported 7,347 additional positive cases on Tuesday. The state's total now stands at 213,794, making the state the national epicenter of the pandemic. Silver explained that the NBA campus with daily testing and guidance from medical experts is "as protected as possible from the environment that we surrounds. "" The above means, in theory, and with the assessments made by our health and safety experts, that it should work, "argued Silver." But we'll see. I trust that in the end our players can be more secure within off the Orlando campus than outside, since we're going to be testing them daily. "Setting up the Walt Disney World Resort campus will cost the NBA more than $ 150 million, hence the virus itself can be tested and try to trace if there is more than one case, if it is essentially the same virus and the same genetic variation that is passed from one player to another, or if two people have infected it. "The campus is going to work independently and so both tend We will take the opportunity to immediately analyze all the new factors and elements that arise every day, "said Silver, who reiterated that in the face of some significant spread, the 'bubble' will be closed and the NBA suspended again.

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