State guidelines for schools released, will be challenging to have sports

The Kentucky Department for Public Health today released safety expectations and best practices guidelines for the state's schools as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

Those expectations and guidelines are going to make a return to sports challenging.

The guidance includes:

• Social distancing
• Cloth face coverings, school health policies and personal protection equipment
• Screening and school exclusion
• Sanitation and environmental factors
• Contact tracing

My questions along has been: if social distancing is still required, how can you play team sports other than golf?

Lt. Governor Jacqueline Coleman, a former basketball player and coach, talked about college football players testing positive for COVID-19.

"A lot of these college athletes are returning to campus, and we're seeing numbers from places like Alabama football and Clemson football," Coleman said. "And so, I would just tell you this: that shows if you have programs that have that amount of money and access to the best medical professionals that you can buy, and they are still having trouble controlling the spread within their own team, that's going to make it really hard obviously for high school teams. And so these guidelines that are in place are obviously for safety reasons, but this is something that everyone is dealing with everywhere regardless of how big your team is or how much equipment they have. So that's going to be a real issue moving forward."