With high profile events such as sporting and mass gathering events, recent history has revealed the importance of developing incident command structures to streamline communication, maximize coordination and establish contingencies. With the advent of COVID-19, a virus with significant human-to-human transmission and the potential for super-spreader events, there has been a brief universal cessation of sports, and the main question now is how to return to play in a way that keeps our athletes and general population healthy. This review aims to describe the core principles regarding return to play using a focus on incident command centers and disaster management. These principles include appropriate hygiene and social distancing, use of masks, rigorous monitoring and screening of symptoms, widespread testing, comprehensive contact tracing and considerations for travel and facilities. In addition, organizations need to have established scalable protocols for athletes who do contract the virus with symptom-based algorithms for length of time away from play and with screening for cardiac and pulmonary complications from COVID-19. Also, encouraging our athletes to become immunized against the virus and educating our athletes about nutrition and the relation to immune health is important as we return to play.

随着体育赛事和群众集会等备受瞩目的活动，最近的历史表明，发展事故指挥结构以简化沟通、最大限度地协调和建立应急措施的重要性。随着 COVID-19 病毒的出现，这种病毒具有显着的人际传播和超级传播事件的可能性，体育运动出现了短暂的普遍停止，现在的主要问题是如何重返赛场让我们的运动员和普通民众保持健康的方式。本次审查旨在描述有关重返赛场的核心原则，重点关注事件指挥中心和灾难管理。这些原则包括适当的卫生和社交距离、使用口罩、严格监测和筛查症状、广泛检测、全面的接触者追踪以及旅行和设施方面的考虑。此外，组织需要为确实感染病毒的运动员建立可扩展的协议，使用基于症状的算法，在远离比赛的时间长度内，并筛查 COVID-19 引起的心脏和肺部并发症。此外，当我们重返赛场时，鼓励我们的运动员接种病毒疫苗，并对我们的运动员进行有关营养和与免疫健康的关系的教育，这一点很重要。