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i think they should do best 2 out of 3
@AdamSchefter: So two more positive tests in Tennessee this am brings it to 18 positive tests in the past week. Next week’s Titans-Bills game now in jeopardy.
This is where "plowing through" is going to bite them.
Not saying the NFL protocols are perfect, but even perfect protocols still wont stop the enormous amount of false positive and false negatives from this god awful test.
Do we know which types were used on the Saints player? I'd be very suspicious if it was a regular test that showed the positive result and then a rapid test that showed negative.
Relaying good news from Schefter about testing is "entering 'victory lap' territory"?
They need to try out different masks. They don't need to be difficult to breath through to be effective.
Sounds like 2 things:
If one team has a bunch of Covid and cant play while the other team is ready to roll, I am not opposed to seeing forfeits.
Yeah, saw that. I expect the Chiefs positive tests to start coming any day now.
The NFL is investigating possibility that Titans players were gathering outside the facility over the last week per Mark Maske on Twitter.
Well, baseball speaks for itself. It's a completely different game than smashing into each other in groups every 30 seconds for a few hours.
Right. Which is why they needed a home-city bubble with a shortened season and/or should have been doing game-day testing with better social distancing at practice facilities.
I thought what they were using was something similar to the South Korean tests from February -- the SK drive-through tests with ~70% accuracy (more false positives, very few false negatives). Are they using something altogether different?
But the Vikings played the Titans right before they all started testing positive and there has not been an outbreak with the Vikings. That should at least give some hope that game transmission may be harder than some think.
Why do people keep saying "A" bubble? Like, one single bubble? Nobody is saying they need a schedule where all 32 teams are playing one another.
Well, if they weren't hell-bent on trying to get a 16 game schedule in 17 weeks like 2020 was your average year they could have had a schedule where AFC teams only play other AFC teams(and NO, not EVERY other team in the AFC) and NFC teams only play NFC teams. Each week they could have alternated an AFC schedule or an NFC schedule and that would have allowed two weeks worth of testing between any team actually having to suit up and play a game. With fewer than 16 games they could have included a bye week once a month so if a game DID need to get moved around before the playoffs it wouldn't have been much less difficult to do so.
I can't say for sure what the South Korea test is but I believe the NFL is using a test with nearly ZERO false positives and between 2% and 37% false negatives. With that many false negatives you really need a high number of negative of tests to be sure someone truly is negative.
What makes you think it would occur at a game? It would be more likely at a hotel, restaurant, airplane, etc.
The NFL has 2 teams struggling with Covid right now. One the NFL forced to jam a bunch of close contacts to a recent positive in a plane together and then stuffed them in a small locker room despite that team’s request for a larger locker room. The other consistently ignored Covid protocols and continued to meet together despite having a bunch of positives and being ordered not to.
Well, we are only a quarter of the way through the schedule so far. Teams had more or less been practicing in their own bubble until Week #1.
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