id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-337430-c2vdnml7 Timpka, Toomas Sports Health During the SARS-Cov-2 Pandemic 2020-05-02 .txt text/plain 2261 122 47 In December 2019, the Chinese city of Wuhan reported an outbreak of SARS-Cov-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2) infection that causes the Covid-19 disease, an atypical pneumonia [1] . The national public health agencies choose social distancing regulations based on an overall assessment of how critical certain activities are for society as a whole and whether motivation to comply with the rules can be assumed. During the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic, effectively all population-level interventions include the recommendation that social contacts with the elderly, and especially the senior elderly, are to be reduced to an absolute minimum. Sports organisations should develop a pandemic response strategy that addresses the needs of its athletes and coaches, while complying with the regulations and recommendations issued by the government and national public health agency. The temporary frameworks for organised sports practice and competitions must be developed based on the social distancing and quarantine protocols activated during the pandemic. ./cache/cord-337430-c2vdnml7.txt ./txt/cord-337430-c2vdnml7.txt