The NBA has postponed Wednesday night’s Pelicans–Kings contest after initially stating that it would suspend the season once that game concluded, the Pelicans have confirmed.
One of the referees in the contest was Courtney Kirkland, who was on duty during the Jazz-Raptors game on Monday. The Kings were ready to go on the court at the time of the scheduled tip-off, while the Pelicans were pushing hard for the game not to be played, as Sam Amick of The Athletic tweets.
Earlier in the evening, Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus and the Jazz-Thunder game was postponed. Teams that have been in contact with the Jazz and Gobert in recent days are likely to get tested as soon as possible.
The NBA’s Board of Governors had a conference call earlier today to discuss ways to handle the pandemic. Several teams were open to the idea of postponing all contests while many were in favor of playing without fans in the arena. The Warriors had planned to host the first game without fans on Thursday night at the Chase Center, but that game – like the rest, starting tomorrow – will no longer be played as scheduled.
I vote they replay the 92-93 season on tv.
Anyone got an ESPN+ membership they can lend me so I can watch some ESPN Classic.
No one panick – Evan Fournier.
I think perhaps Rudy Gobert may have changed his tune.
That was his response to talking with Rudy. Also he can’t spell panic.
Total bs
People are overreacting.
Coronavirus kills 3.4% of people who contract it….meaning 96.6% didn’t die. Flu kills anywhere between 1-2% of people who contract it. Don’t see the NBA shutting down stuff for flu season.
Oh no Italy is at 6%!!! Yeah a country that has an average age of 45.5 years(one of highest age averages in Europe) is having it’s older population dying at higher rates. In unrelated news, flu, cold, mono, pneumonia also kill older people at higher rates compared to younger people.
Wash your hands regularly, wipe down dirty surfaces with cleaning products regularly, give your body what it needs nutrition wise, and you’ll be fine if you’re relatively young.
.1% for the flu…
Everything else he said though was spot on.
The magnitude matters. If you’re 36x more likely to die, that is a signficant difference. That’s without getting into the subcategories, that’s just broad stroke. So those that have other illnesses that impact their immune system that could be double the likelihood. Also, the majority cases are still on-going, not cleared. Meaning the % could still increase.
Likely will decrease, as they only testing people who show the worst symptoms. That is why it is a pandemic of panic, just like the financial crisis of 2008, it almost broke the world needlessly if people hadn’t panic nothing would have happened, same here, panic is the real pandemic not the flu.
Overall, the CDC estimates that 12,000 and 61,000 deaths annually since 2010 can be blamed on the flu. Globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the flu kills 290,000 to 650,000 people per year.
Estimates say there’s somewhere between 80 million and 100 million cases of flu world wide where you saw a Dr due to symptoms. That’s roughly 1%. So the total amount is roughly somewhere between there.
Wash your hands, and stop bullshiting
How selfish, “if you’re relatively young”, to not care.
Older people get sicker easier and die at higher rates than younger people do of the same illnesses.
If you get sick if you’re between 20 and 40 you’ll most likely be fine if you don’t have any serious health issues and take care of yourself. If you’re 50 or older and get it you’re looking at worse odds of beating it. Same goes with kids.
It’s called the immune system. Kids and the elderly have worse immune systems.
That’s why Drs and news talk about older people not going out as much during flu season.
After Vincsanity hit that three, they should of passed him the ball back for one last dunk. Good luck Vince Carter.