"It's still a little early to tell," Beshear said. "I think where people are trending is games without fans because it's the mass number when you have fans that can spread (the virus). But some sports have a lot of contact too. I want to be really cognizant that these are student-athletes, right? They're not paid professionals; we want to make sure it's safe for them. Now, they're part of an age group that respond best to this virus in terms of health outcome, but they still get it.
"I know that when we talk about youth sports, it's going to be low contact sports. And then on the high contact sports, we're going to try to come up with guidance that lets you do individual workouts and team practices that don't involve the actual contact. So, there's a lot of contact in basketball, we don't think about it the same way we do football, but there's a lot of contact. Now, if we can get some guidance out there that would let people practice but not scrimmage for instance, thoughts about having 'em spread out until we can get to the point where we think it's safer, which could be later in the summer. Again, we're watching all of this. That's probably where we're headed on our guidance, but we expect for the youth baseball, tennis; hopefully we can do swimming. Again, this isn't a pool that's open just for entertainment, but if we can get the guidance for low contact sports that are out there. It's still going to be a real challenge when we look in the fall or anytime without a vaccine to have 20,000, 30,000 fans in stands. But we don't want to presuppose where the virus is going. A lot could happen, and that's why we don't want to say no, but we do want to temper expectations."
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