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One day after the Philadelphia Catholic League bagged the fall season, Bucks County Health Director Dr. David Damsker says he thinks it’s safe to go forward.
Damsker says the COVID-19 numbers in the county are better than they’ve been since before July 4, and their message isn’t just go out and play, it’s go out and play safely.
“Every school district, I’ve seen the plans have a good health-and-safety plan that minimizes the risk of spreading that disease if there is indeed a person on that team (who tests positive)," he said.
Damsker says they’ve had positive cases on youth sports teams over the summer, but he says those cases not contracted from playing sports, and there are no cases that were spread from contact on teams.
“They’ve gotten it from their parents. They’ve gotten it from traveling to Florida. Or they’ve gotten it in other situation," Damsker said. "And that won’t stop. We’re always going to have a baseline of community spread.”
Damsker says the county will be supportive of whatever districts decide.
“There’s no reason for me to believe we won’t have cases in Bucks County every single day in the spring also. So we believe the situation as it stands is similar to what it could be six months to a year from now,” he said.
Based based on that, Damsker says, he believes it’s in everyone’s best interest to figure how to move forward with fall sports and in-person instruction and mitigate the risk as well as possible.