Santander League: Immune footballers beat those infected with the coronavirus (160-5) | LaLiga Santander 2019

The number of those who have antibodies would be 16% of LaLiga / If the percentage were transferred to the Spanish population, we would speak of more than seven million immune, although it is possible that the figure is higher, being a highly protected group / Joel, goalkeeper of Betis, and Lodi, of Atlético, are two of those who have the active virus

• Bundesliga.
  

  A complete squad in quarantine that calls into question the return of football
  

• Joel Robles.
  

  “I have been responsible and I have the virus”
  

Immune footballers beat the infected (160-5), according to the data held by LaLiga after the first wave of tests carried out on the First and Second Division squads. The presiding body Javier Thebes announced yesterday that five positive cases of coronavirus had been detected, all asymptomatic but with the virus active, of which he did not reveal his identity, although the Betis goalkeeper, Joel Robles, admitted his on social networks, in the same way that the athletic had done I gave it. In the information transferred to LaLiga, although it was not made public, there are also 160 players in whom antibodies would have been detected and would already be immune to Covid-19, according to the Cope chain and confirmed by EL MUNDO, which would represent, approximately, a 16% of the group analyzed.

The figures therefore speak of a very low incidence of positive assets in the group, below 0.5%, if we take as a base a population of about 1,050 players, from an average of 25 footballers for each of the 42 templates of the two categories. LaLiga did not specify the exact number of tests carried out. The incidence, however, would be significantly below that registered in the Bundesliga. The German competition released 10 positives among 1,724 tests. In other words, almost 0.6%. These are joined by two other positives at Dynamo Dresden, bottom of the second category, which forced the entire squad to be quarantined, but without changing plans on returning to competition. In the case of the Bundesliga, the soccer players with antibodies did not transcend.

With such a contagion rate, LaLiga can continue with its roadmap, which involves continuing with training and resuming competition in mid-June. The most optimistic alternatives would go through the weekend that would start on Friday the 12th or delay it until Tuesday or Wednesday of the following week, something that will mark the evolution of the pandemic. Until all the country's territories are not in Phase I of the de-escalation, in a more homogeneous area, it is likely that they will not be fixed.

Infected soccer players will be quarantined. All are asymptomatic, with low viral loads. They will be submitted to control and new PCR tests soon. Some names had come out, but it is possible that in several cases they were players with antibodies. LaLiga did not offer them, in compliance with the Organic Law on Data Protection. Among the immune, everything indicates that there may be a greater concentration in teams such as Valencia, where there may be around twenty, according to sources close to the club, and Espanyol, since both had cases previously.

The only ones who can be safely located among the active infected are Lodi, from Atlético, and Bético Joel, since they admitted it through social networks. The second he did, yesterday, through a video in which he admitted that they were well, both he and his wife, pregnant, and their daughter: «We have had no symptoms. We are perfect ». His companions Juanmi and Pedraza, in addition to Remiro (Real Sociedad) and Herrera (Granada) had also been mentioned, but without specifying whether they were actively immune or carriers of the virus.

For its notification, LaLiga has followed the same criteria as the Ministry of Health in its accounting and the Government when reporting daily cases of new infected. That is, those who have tested positive for PCR.

The Spanish health authorities have been implementing a random analysis plan for the population for weeks now to try to statistically quantify the number of people who would have been in contact with the virus and thus determine the degree of immunity of the community, with the objective of being able to design its strategy against the pandemic in the medium and long term. Well, if we took the professional soccer collective as a sample, we would find that its immunity rate would be around that 16%. If we transferred it to the population of Spain (47 million people), we would speak of about eight million immune. However, since soccer players are a group that is medically highly controlled and subjected to severe control measures during this pandemic, in addition to a specific age bracket, it is very possible that the risk variables would increase this percentage among the country's total population. .