Updated Medical Advisory Group Report (11/13)
GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – The Atlantic Coast Convention introduced at present the up to date protocols for winter sports activities throughout the league’s Medical Advisory Group Report. The report particularly addresses enhanced security requirements and testing measures in basketball, wrestling and low transmission danger sports activities.
“The ACC’s Medical Advisory Group, together with our campus directors and student-athletes, continues to do excellent work to supply a protected atmosphere through which our groups can compete,” stated ACC Commissioner John Swofford. “I applaud all of our student-athletes as they proceed to persevere by means of these difficult instances.”
The ACC’s Medical Advisory Group has been assembly weekly because the spring to share info on the impression of COVID-19 on ACC campuses and intercollegiate athletics. The primary MAG report was launched on July 29 (ACC Announces Plans for Football and Fall Olympic Sports) and enhanced on Aug. 28 (ACC Enhances Safety Standards Within its Medical Advisory Group). The MAG report outlines minimal requirements for every campus to observe within the areas of testing, reporting constructive take a look at outcomes, and protocols for cleansing and sanitizing competitors areas.
Today’s updated MAG Report requires all crew members, and people in shut contact with the groups in males’s and girls’s basketball and wrestling, to be examined 3 times every week on non-consecutive days. One molecular (PCR) take a look at should be administered inside three days of the primary competitors of the week. The visiting crew will need to have outcomes from the take a look at carried out inside three days previous to the competitors earlier than the crew travels to the location. A take a look at shall even be administered inside 48 hours of the conclusion of a sport and could also be both a molecular (PCR) or antigen take a look at.
Males’s and girls’s basketball officers will likely be required to check 3 times per week and can endure symptom and temperature checks upon arrival on the venue. Any personnel seated on the scorer’s desk(s) should full a symptom and temperature test upon arrival on the venue and put on a face overlaying always. Wrestling officers shall be examined as soon as per week.
Whereas in season, any crew member who leaves the establishment for greater than three days (ex. NCAA-mandated vacation break), should quarantine for twenty-four hours upon return to campus. Throughout quarantine, crew members will likely be examined with a molecular (PCR) take a look at and should return to follow if, and when, the result’s unfavourable. As well as, crew members should document a second unfavourable take a look at (both PCR or antigen) previous to the primary competitors following the break.
In low transmission danger sports activities, all crew members should be examined as soon as per week throughout weeks in which there’s competitors. The take a look at should be a molecular (PCR) take a look at and accomplished inside three calendar days of the primary competitors of the week. Throughout weeks through which the game doesn’t compete, testing ought to observe the establishment’s plan for all college students following native, state and nationwide well being steerage. Extra testing could also be carried out on the establishment’s discretion. Any desk officers in these sports activities are required to put on a face masks.
As beforehand introduced, each student-athlete who exams constructive will endure a cardiac analysis that features an electrocardiogram, a troponin take a look at and an echocardiogram earlier than a phased return to train.
Along with the up to date ACC MAG report, the ACC has considerably adjusted its 2020-21 Males’s and Girls’s Basketball Sport Administration protocols. Particularly, there should be a minimal of 15 toes separating most people and the areas on the courtroom occupied by important personnel (crew bench/scorer’s desk, and so on.). People deemed important to have entry throughout the 15-foot perimeter will likely be required to fulfill particular and constant well being and security requirements as agreed upon by all 15 colleges, together with a temperature screening, symptom test, bodily distancing and masking.
