{"content":[{"text":"Like you, we are committed to evidence-based decision making and would like to highlight \n some critically important data points to you, to underscore the efficacy of the Return to \n Play framework that has been put in place.","bbox":{"left":0.115922,"top":0.22006,"width":0.775872,"height":0.054119}},{"text":"Since launching our Return to Play Guide on June 11th, 2020, only 29 cases of Covid-19 \n have been reported across our entire soccer community last year – among which only 17 \n youth cases had no identifiable origin outside the field of play. Any further spread was \n contained thanks to the use of our Emergency Response Plan contained within our Return \n to Play Guide, which requires reporting infections or suspected infections to multiple levels \n of sport and health authorities, as well an action protocol to be followed at the \n Club/Academy and community level.","bbox":{"left":0.115922,"top":0.292787,"width":0.775948,"height":0.12688499999999997}},{"text":"The case rate of 3.4 per 100,000 witnessed across the population of active soccer players \n in Ontario is much lower than the case rate in the overall population in Ontario, even when \n comparing to the case rate for youth. This mirrors the data published earlier this year by \n Watson et al. in their study ,“COVID-19 in Youth Soccer”, who showed that the incidence of \n COVID-19 among youth soccer athletes is relatively low when compared to the background \n incidence among children across the country, and when compared to the incidence within \n the local general population.","bbox":{"left":0.115922,"top":0.438279,"width":0.776048,"height":0.12702400000000003}},{"text":"The lead researcher is further quoted in a Postmedia article, “In terms of truly documented \n transmission between athletes during participation, I’m not aware of anything,” says Dr. Drew \n Watson, lead author on three University of Wisconsin studies that investigated COVID-19 \n risks in sports, and senior author on three other UW studies on the mental-health effects of \n sports shutdowns. “I know researchers who are struggling to find even a single case among \n outdoor-sports participants, in particular.”","bbox":{"left":0.115922,"top":0.583911,"width":0.776159,"height":0.10866500000000001}},{"text":"When combined with the results of an additional study conducted among over 30,000 high \n school sport participants from ~200 schools, the current scientific consensus is that there \n is no scientific justification for restrictions in the overwhelming majority of youth sports \n (including contact sports), and especially in cases where those sports are played \n outdoors.","bbox":{"left":0.115922,"top":0.711183,"width":0.775929,"height":0.09052099999999996}},{"text":"2","bbox":{"left":0.88232,"top":0.923812,"width":0.009688999999999948,"height":0.015625}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":-0.002941,"top":-0.000063,"width":0.99951,"height":0.20447}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":-0.002941,"top":-0.000063,"width":0.99951,"height":0.20447}]}