Soccer in the time of COVID-19: 1 year report from an Italian top league club, March 2020–February 2021
| Autor: | Dario Bartolozzi, Gian Maria Rossolini, Simona Pollini, Luca Pengue, Lorenzo Zammarchi, Alessandro Bartoloni, Massimo Quercioli, Francesco Epifani, Michele Spinicci |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Adult
Male football 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak medicine.medical_specialty From the Field Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Epidemiology Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Football League Disease Outbreaks Soccer Pandemic Humans Medicine SARS-CoV-2 business.industry COVID-19 Outbreak Middle Aged Infectious Diseases Italy outbreaks Family medicine Communicable Disease Control Club sport business |
| Zdroj: | Epidemiology and Infection |
| ISSN: | 1469-4409 0950-2688 |
| Popis: | We report the events of an Italian top league soccer club that took place in 1 year (from March 2020 to February 2021) at the time of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In early March 2020, just before sport competitions were called off due to the national lockdown in Italy, the team, which included 27 players and 26 staff at the time, faced a COVID-19 outbreak, with 16 confirmed and seven probable cases, including three staff members who had to be hospitalised. In May 2020, at the resumption of the training sessions, a high prevalence of anti-severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) immunoglobulin G positivity (35/53, 66%) was detected among the members of the group. In the following months, sport activities were organised behind closed doors with stringent risk mitigation procedures in place. As of February 2021, only two new cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection were detected within the group, against more than 3500 nasopharyngeal swabs and 1000 serological tests. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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