The director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Rochelle Walensky, said on Monday that youth sports and other extracurricular activities “should be limited” amid the coronavirus pandemic, saying the outbreaks in young people resulted from these activities.
“We are finding that many outbreaks in young people are related to youth sports and extracurricular activities,” said Walensky.
“According to the CDC’s guidance, these activities should be limited,” continued Walensky, adding that “if they are not, the risk of clusters can be avoided with cadence testing strategies, as they are being implemented in so many different places” .
Walensky said that as schools are reopening for students and young people continue to participate in their extracurricular activities, it is “even more important” for the public to strictly follow CDC guidelines.
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In December, the CDC issued guidelines for youth sports, saying that each community may not need to make adjustments to meet its own specific circumstances.
The CDC said that ways of assessing risk for these activities include community levels of COVID-19, the physical proximity of players – saying, for example, sports that require contact or proximity “can make it more difficult to maintain physical distance, in comparison for sports where the players are not close to each other “- the level of intensity of the activity and the time that the players are close to each other or the team.
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The CDC also said that the scenario of the event or sporting activity is important, noting that indoor activities pose more risk than outdoor activities, and pointed to team size, equipment sharing and limited travel outside the community. local.
The CDC urged local youth sports and activities organizations to clean and disinfect the surfaces of fields, courts or equipment and other shared objects, impose the use of masks, limit the size of teams and practice physical distance.