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The average age of COVID-19 patients in Erie County continues to drop heavily, because there has been so much effort to vaccinate older residents. Now young people playing sports has become a major issue.
For much of the long pandemic, sports just weren’t allowed. But as the lockdown eased, sports returned.
Since last year, County Executive Mark Poloncarz and County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein have been pushing to enforce the rules on teams, forcing dozens into lockdown and quarantine as virus cases surfaced, because the rules were often broken. Students, faculty, other staff than we have ever recorded, Poloncarz emphasized during his Tuesday briefing, 642 new cases for the most recent week ending, which is the highest we have ever seen. And you can look at the chart here and see how it keeps increasing. And this is almost all, not every case, but almost all cases are students. So it s very disconcerting.