2 min read • August 31, 2020
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Concerns about the NFL’s lack of a bubble have been widespread, but through camp we have zero COVID positive tests. We hold to our belief that the NFL will start on time. For a nine-day period between August 12 and August 20th, 58,397 tests were conducted on players and personnel. Daily testing on Tier 1 and tier 2 individuals focused on 8,573 people including all players and coaches and weekly on tier 3 per. Of the 23,260 tests on players, there were no positives. Although there were 77 false positives, it turns out that there was “contamination” from the lab. There were six positives among the 35,137 Tier 3 personnel with weekly testing. This is certainly great news, as even general team staff had just a 0.00017% positive rate. These results rival the results of other professional league bubbles. Congrats to the NFL but let’s not get complacent. Travel and games have not started yet. The key is to not let the guard down and stay socially distanced. Understanding the concept of viral load, done the right way, there is less of a chance of getting COVID on Sundays than in the six days a week in the facility.
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