The NBA plans to implement an ambitious aspect of its league-wide contact program to ensure that players and staff members of the team use sensors during all activities organized by the team to play from the 7th of January. , following a memo from the league hosted by ESPN.
Only Nivel 1 and Nivel 2 personnel, descriptions described in the league’s health and safety protocols that include personnel and specific staff members, such as trainers, must use Kinexon SafeZone contact sensor devices in the airplane car of the team, during the practices and action and from the arena or the practice facilities at home in relation to the journey of the team, say the memo.
Do not use the sensors subject to discipline, but it is not clear what will happen. It is not required that the players use the sensors during the games or in the hotel of the team when traveling.
A trial period for the program begins on December 23 and it is hoped to be implemented by January 7, following another memo from the league hosted by ESPN.
The sensors do not record the GPS alert and activate it when they are alerted, which defines as 6 pieces, otherwise a person using one, a point that the NBA health officials enforce to calm the preoccupations with and monitor them individual movements. It is hoped that the “proximity alarm” function of the devices, which was active in the city of Orlando, Florida, will be deactivated at this time.
The memorandum states that the sensors record “the distance and duration of interactions in person” with other people who use a sensor, which the NBA creates in its revisions of contact scans in coronavirus positive cases. Dichas revisions also include interviews with players and staff members, as well as examining the images of the rooms in the team’s installations, in order to better understand who may have been exposed to an infected person.
A health officer with direct knowledge of the signal situation that the sensors need to significantly help determine more how players or staff need to be able to quarantine in case the situation worsens.
“We do not want to be forced to pay even if it is not necessary,” said the official, who had an anonymous condition.
This effort is a collaboration between the NBA, the Union of Players and Medical Officers, and the officials involved in the field, which should serve as a proactive way to identify situations in which staff members and other students may have problems interacting. an infection.
“We have the hope that we can also use it solely when we have cases, be proactive in reducing the number of contacts including those who have cases”, said NBA Senior Vice President David Weiss, who worked with the staff of the union of players and medical experts during the pandemic,’n ESPN.
The NFL has used these sensors throughout its time, and the NBA has voluntary training in Orlando, and the people are using a cordon. A league memo is established that has options for the players and staff members designated using the sensors, which include a cord, a pulse and another portable device, only the players need to use the sensor in the belt part of his short shorts during the practices.
It is said that the compliment among the orphaned firefighters in Orlando, to maintain a temporary fleet of a contaminated environment during the coronavirus pandemic creates numerous opportunities for infection. As a matter of fact, the NBA wants to require the sensors as a necessary step, including if they could result in inconvenience, as some of the team’s officials say.
“Definitely going to have his streams in the truck”, says the health officer, who agrees that the sensors are not used at the personal time.
An NBA athletic trainer describes the program as “ambitious” and subverts the differences between NFL and NBA teams that employ sensors.
“One thing that happens in the NFL, however, is usually to lie to work all the days”, said the athletic trainer, including anonymous condition. “I would like to, theoretically, teenagers also play a game this year [en la NFL]. So there are many things we can do. Let us configure and load the things, distributors and collectors and distributors and collectors, and think [en] airplanes, bus and train journeys and practices on the railways and night games and airport journeys. It’s really very ambitious “.
At least the staff members of each team tend to help manage the Kinexon SafeZone system, but the data recorded by the sensors are shared only with the league and the individual teams and no other teams, including a league memo . The information retrieved on the sensors will be “disidentified” and will not be accessible in individual form after the 2020-21 deadline, according to the memo.