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Report: Chiefs had multiple false-positive COVID-19 tests early this morning

FOX’s Jay Glazer says the Chiefs had 7 false-positive COVID-19 tests that led to a disruptive early morning.

Several members of the Kansas City Chiefs had an interesting early morning ahead of their Week 13 game with the Denver Broncos.

According to a report from FOX NFL Sunday’s Jay Glazer, the Chiefs were notified of seven positive COVID-19 tests at 3:30 a.m. on Sunday morning. Among them were several members of the coaching staff, leaving a large concern of whether the team would have enough coaches for the game.

The positive test results required vigorous contact tracing and retesting to be done. The team would later learn that all of the positive results were actually false-positive tests due to an error at the lab where they were processed.

Obviously, the good news is that these tests were false-positive and the team won’t have any COVID-19 issues heading into “Sunday Night Football.” The bad news is that this was likely a very disruptive early morning for members of the coaching staff and possibly some players. Thankfully, this week the Chiefs are playing an evening game. The team has some time to get a little extra rest ahead of their game with the Broncos. It serves as yet another reminder of some of the strange challenges that teams face during this season impacted by COVID-19.

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Saints report no new positive COVID-19 results after Friday tests

The New Orleans Saints and Las Vegas Raiders reported no COVID-19 results after Friday’s round of coronavirus testing, clearing them to play

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Friday’s round of COVID-19 testing returned no new positive results for the New Orleans Saints following the loss of wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders, who must spend 10 days on the NFL’s reserve list after expressing symptoms of the coronavirus and testing positive on Thursday.

Multiple local and national NFL reporters added that both the Saints and the Las Vegas Raiders, managing their own series of reserve list additions, are moving towards playing football on Sunday.

Sanders will be joined by cornerback Ken Crawley as an inactive this week due to prolonged exposure marking the backup corner as a high-risk candidate. Crawley has tested negative, but NFL rules require he be sidelined out of an abundance of caution.

Saints coach Sean Payton earlier said that “about 20” people who were around Sanders recently all retested negative, so the team is hopeful to avoid an outbreak of infections. All players are tested daily, including game days, so while they are in the clear for now that situation could change. That’s just part of playing a team sport during a pandemic.

Gators football sees no new COVID-19 cases this week

There were 462 total tests within the department in the last week, and only two returned positive cases, a rate of just 0.4 percent.

The newest COVID-19 testing data from the University of Florida Athletic Association is good news for the program.

There have been no new positive cases on the football team this week, as of Monday.

The team conducted 274 tests between Sept. 21 and Sept. 28, and none of them returned a positive result. The outlook is good for the athletic department in general, as well.

There were 462 total tests within the department in the last week, and only two returned positive cases, a rate of just 0.4 percent.

This comes just two weeks after 61 positive tests in a six-day span shut down operations for the baseball team and lacrosse team, who accounted for a combined 46 of those cases.

It appears that after suffering severe outbreaks earlier in the month, the Gators program is now doing a better job of containing the spread of the virus. It just remains to be seen how capable it will be of maintaining the same standards over the course of a season.

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Watch: Brian Kelly on importance of masks for a college football team

He may have planned on it seeming like a PSA about wearing a mask but Brian Kelly’s speech to the team Saturday felt like one.

I’m sure the intent wasn’t for it to be viewed on a scale any larger than the room of football players and staff members he was talking to but Brian Kelly’s message to his team after Saturday’s 52-0 win over South Florida came across like a well thought out PSA.

While recapping parts of the game Kelly referenced South Florida’s long snapper issues that were only apparent because their regular long-snapper was in quarantine.

Kelly also brought up Florida State coach Mike Norvell who will miss their game against Miami this week due to testing positive for COVID-19.

You can watch the entire post game speech from Kelly to his team here, as it also features him awarded the game ball to the player yours truly awarded it to on Saturday.

I imagine most college football coaches and especially those anywhere near as experienced as Brian Kelly entered 2020 thinking they had probably seen just about everything coaching 18-22 year olds had to offer.

Yet here they are even after games now having to remind those late teens or guys in their early twenties to pull up their masks as everyone is gathered after the game.

It is worth noting that the University did announce four positive COVID-19 tests were administered to members of the Notre Dame football team over the last week.

2020, man.

2020.

 

Florida Gators athletics release updated COVID-19 testing information

On Wednesday, the University of Florida Athletic Association released updated data regarding testing results for COVID-19 as of September 7.

On Wednesday, the University of Florida Athletic Association released updated data regarding testing results for COVID-19. The results are up-to-date as of Monday, Sept. 7.

In total, 1,227 UF student-athletes have been tested since they returned to campus on May 26. Of those, 42 have returned positive tests during that time frame, just a 3.4 percent positive test rate. So far during the month of September, that rate hasn’t changed much. There have been 191 tests administered this month with seven positive results, a 3.7 percent positive rate.

Within the football program specifically, the positivity rate is slightly higher than the total athletic department rate. In total, 523 tests have been given since the end of May with 22 positive results (a rate of 4.2 percent).

However, the month of September gives signs for optimism, as the positive test rate for the football program has not only dropped far below its total over the last four months but also far below the general positivity rate within the athletic department.

There have been a total of 101 tests administered this month, and only one has turned back positive.

It’s unclear if this precipitous drop will be sustainable once the season potentially starts, as programs around the country have seen much more serious outbreaks within their rosters. But for now, it appears as if the steps taken by the UF football program, at least recently, are mostly working.

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Saints haven’t reported any positive COVID-19 tests yet

The New Orleans Saints are one a few teams including the Patriots, Chargers, Texans, and Seahawks to not report any positive COVID-19 tests.

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The New Orleans Saints have been testing players for COVID-19 coronavirus infections daily, but they have not returned any positive tests since the first wave of rookies arrived on July 27. Players must test negative twice before they will be allowed to enter the team practice facility, and while it’s early, it appears that Saints players have done a great job protecting themselves and their families during the long offseason.

While the Saints have seen just two players opt out of the 2020 season (backup tight ends Cole Wick and Jason Vander Laan), they have not had to designate anyone to the NFL’s Reserve/COVID-19 list because of an infection. They’re one of a handful of teams to not do so, including the Patriots, Texans, Chargers, Panthers, Cardinals, and Seahawks.

That’s not to say the Saints won’t experience infections. Head coach Sean Payton was diagnosed with the coronavirus earlier this year and spent two weeks quarantined in his home while recovering. General manager Mickey Loomis confirmed that “a couple of other” members of the organization tested positive over the summer, too.

So the Saints will have to be vigilant and limit risk as best as they can once training camp begins in earnest, but the high-contact nature of the sport and its large rosters make breakouts feel like an inevitability. Payton himself has said that, at the end of the day, all the precautions in the world go out the window once two teams gather for a two- or three-hour game of tackle football.

But at this early stage, it’s hard to not feel encouraged by how the Saints are starting out. Hopefully things will continue trending in a positive direction.

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Gators News: July 28, 2020

It has not been a great first week for the league and if things don’t shape up soon, we could very well see baseball shut back down again. 

As we wade deeper into another week the ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic are becoming murkier and murkier as Major League Baseball battles through the first significant test of its restarted season.

The news coming out of the weekend was that multiple members of the Miami Marlins baseball squad, including both players and staff, tested positive for the novel coronavirus yet still took the field against the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday, only to have its next two games canceled.

The good news is that so far, no member of the Phillies’ club has tested positive… yet. The bad news is that there has not been a sufficient incubation period for the virus to show up for contact over the past couple of days, making the results a bit less encouraging. Additionally, four more Marlins tested positive over the past 24 hours, bringing the grand total to 17 among Miami’s baseball personnel.

The word from the nation’s top infection disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci? This outbreak could spell doom for the MLB season, but does not necessarily mean the games must be stopped now.

“This could put it in danger. I don’t believe they need to stop, but we just need to follow this and see what happens with other teams on a day-by-day basis.”

It has not been a great first week for the league and if things don’t shape up soon, we could very well see baseball shut back down again.

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