Mitigating from COVID-19 during Intercollegiate Sports Match

Young June Choe; In Han Song; Kabsung Kim; Seunghun Hyun; Hee-Deung Park; Yun-Kyung Kim

doi:10.3947/ic.2023.0047

Mitigating from COVID-19 during Intercollegiate Sports Match

Infect Chemother. 2023 Sep;55(3):394-396. doi: 10.3947/ic.2023.0047. Epub 2023 Aug 4.

Authors

Young June Choe¹, In Han Song², Kabsung Kim³, Seunghun Hyun⁴, Hee-Deung Park⁵, Yun-Kyung Kim⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Korea University Anam Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
² Graduate School of Social Welfare, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
³ Department of Urban Planning and Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
⁴ Department of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
⁵ School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
⁶ Department of Pediatrics, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. byelhana@korea.ac.kr.

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has posed a significant threat not only to health outcomes but also to other societal sectors, including the educational system. Apart from youth education, colleges and universities are characterized by the integration of in-depth theoretical and practical knowledge in young adulthood. Our observations in this study suggest that college fairs, sports matches, and extracurricular activities can be safely resumed when population-level immunity has reached herd protection.

Keywords: COVID-19; College; Sports; University.