NFL teams pausing activity due to COVID-19 tests

Several NFL teams hit the pause button on football activity Sunday after positive COVID-19 tests.

Professional sports leagues continue to balance the return to action during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the NFL is no exception. Recently, the testing numbers seemed to indicate that training camps were working to keep players healthy, but that may have hit a snag over the weekend.

According to Tom Pelissero, several teams decided to alter or cancel football activities on Sunday “after irregularities in results from Saturday’s COVID-19 test results.” The league released a statement as well:

According to Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com, the Cleveland Browns had “double-digit positive COVID-19 tests from Saturday:”

That led to the Browns being one of the teams to pause football activities.

The Chicago Bears also found that nine members of the organization tested positive, although according to the organization these are being considered false positives after retests:

Hopefully this is just a testing issue, and not a sign of infectious spread.