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Kids and Kubs to take Holiday Pause, COVID-19 concerns
The Club membership's high-risk population, resulted in a plan to pause the scheduled games a week after Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's
Kids and Kubs to take Holiday Pause, COVID-19 concerns
COVID-19 concerns about holiday traveling, spiking infection rates throughout Florida and the U.S., along with the Club membership's high-risk population, resulted in a plan to pause the scheduled games a week after Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years' Day.
At its meeting of Thursday, November 19, a vote of the Club members will close play after the completion of two games held Tuesday, November 24. Play will resume with two games on December 3.
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The suspension of play will again occur at the end of games held December 22, with action resuming with a set of games Thursday, January,7,2021.
Kids and Kubs club membership voted seventeen (17) yes, ten (10) no, with two abstaining, to pass the motion. The pause in interclub action occurs five games into the 91st season of the Club. City directives shut down the 2019-20 season eight games short of completion on March 12. This self-imposed action will delete six games from the 20-21 interclub championship competition.
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Club President Jon Wilkinson noted that he is not surprised that the Club's high risk 74 and above membership is concerned with the upward trend of new cases.
The Florida Department of Health reported 8,376 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, November 25, and 97 more deaths as the state moves in on 1 million total infections since the beginning of the pandemic.
Florida has recorded 961,676 cases of COVID-19 to date. Only Texas and California have recorded more cases.
