[lawrence-newsletter]This morning, the University of Wisconsin announced that two student-athletes of the 117 tested have tested positive for COVID-19. The student-athletes tested were a mix of volleyball and football players that were on-campus for workouts. For privacy reasons, UW will not be releasing the names of the athletes. Here is the full statement from the University of Wisconsin on the testing.
During our phased approach to bringing student-athletes back to campus, Wisconsin Athletics will conduct COVID-19 testing of our student-athletes. We expect there will be some positive results from these tests.
Local public health guidelines will be adhered to for reporting and contact tracing to identify individuals who would have been in contact with the COVID-19 positive individual. During our initial on campus screening of 117 student-athletes, two student-athletes tested positive for COVID-19.
Per Wisconsin Athletics’ management plan outlined in our initial return to campus release, those student-athletes are now self-isolating and UW Athletics’ Infection Response Team is monitoring their recovery. Moving forward during this initial phase of our return to campus, in order to protect the identity of those student-athletes who may test positive, Wisconsin Athletics will publicly release the aggregate number of positive tests at regular intervals.