COVID-19 Hospital Surge & Health System Reorientation
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RI Youth & Amateur Sports For all sports, spectators are limited, masks are required (including during gameplay), clear record-keeping and contact tracing are mandatory. Athletes and coaches should work to reduce risk and follow the RI guidance. HIGHER RISK MODERATE RISK LOWER RISK Close, sustained contact between Intermittent close contact or close, sustained contact, Sports that can be done with physical participants, lack of significant protective but with protective equipment in place that may reduce distancing or individually with no sharing of barriers, and high probability that the likelihood of respiratory particle transmission or equipment or the ability to clean the respiratory particles will be transmitted sports that use equipment that can’t be cleaned equipment between use by competitors. between participants between participants Examples: Individual running events, throwing events Examples: Basketball, ice hockey, volleyball*, baseball*, (javelin, shot put, discus), individual swimming, golf, Examples: Wrestling, football, boys/men’s softball*, soccer, gymnastics*, field hockey, tennis*, swimming weightlifting, alpine skiing, sideline cheer, individual lacrosse, competitive cheer, competitive group relays, girls/woman’s lacrosse, water polo, fencing, competitive dance, cross country, archery, shooting, individual dance, rugby, boxing, competitive martial arts, group cycling, team sailing/rowing, sport climbing, trampoline, cycling, equestrian, dressage or eventing, wrestling, pairs figure skating table tennis, swimming relays, synchronized diving, pole vault*, snowboarding, singles figure skating, solo sailing, high jump*, long jump*, artistic swimming, badminton, group individual running events, single sculling, individual running, triathlon, modern pentathlon, cross country skiing, rowing, individual diving, golf, individual sailing, biathlon, Nordic combined, short track speedskating, group skateboarding, weightlifting, alpine skiing, curling, speed skating skiing, individual speedskating, singles figure skating *Could potentially be considered “Lower Risk” with appropriate cleaning of equipment and use of masks by participants Sources: National Federation of State High School Associations, Sports Medicine Advisory Committee: Guidance for Opening Up High School Athletics and Activities; and United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee, USOPC Guidance: Return to Training and Sport Event Planning..