Great news for University of Florida sports fans! On Tuesday, the school released its coronavirus testing data taken from student-athletes starting on May 26 and ending yesterday, with only one positive COVID-19 result reported for the month of August among all sports.
Even better news: the Gators football team reported no positive results this past month. Head coach Dan Mullen made mention of the team’s string of zero positives in a press conference via Zoom earlier in the day, suggesting that his team is set to play despite the ongoing pandemic.
UF has released COVID-19 testing data among student-athletes since return to campus on May 26th, through yesterday.
Mullen said earlier today that football team continued to have zero +‘s. pic.twitter.com/zRTjccSfTn
— Zach Goodall (@zach_goodall) August 25, 2020
Since May 26, 809 tests overall were administered to student-athletes with 35 of them testing positive for a 4.3 percent positivity rate, according to the data; in August, only one test came back positive out of 479 samples. The numbers for the football squad are even better, improving from 21 positives in 359 on campus since May to zero out of 197 tested in August.
While it has yet to be seen if Florida and the rest of the Southeastern Conference will actually play ball this fall, these numbers are certainly encouraging. If the Gators can keep the virus at bay, at very least they will be set to win a war of attrition with other teams who may not be so fortunate in evading the dark cloud of the coronavirus over the course of the season.
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