Michigan State quarantines football team after positive tests

Posted by Darin Gantt on July 24, 2020, 3:37 PM EDT
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As the NFL closes in on a return to work, college football teams are serving as an example of what could possibly go wrong.

According to Rainer Sabin of the Detroit Free Press, Michigan State has now quarantined its entire football team after a round of COVID-19 tests.

The school announced Friday that a student athlete and a staffer tested positive on Thursday. That came two days after the school suspended workouts for the football team, after a staff member tested positive last weekend.

The school is requiring the football team to quarantine or isolate over the next 14 days.

“The university has designated areas available to house individuals in quarantine as needed based upon the living arrangements for student-athletes,” the school said in a statement.

Spartans football players returned to campus in mid-June, and as of last week they had tested 402 individuals, with seven positive results.

Other schools including Ohio State, North Carolina, Kansas State, Houston, Indiana, Maryland, and Boise State have had to stop workouts because of positive tests.

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5 responses to “Michigan State quarantines football team after positive tests”

  1. For the millionth time ….. football has too many moving parts and there will be no 2020 season.

  2. If they only tracked who came close they would only have to isolate a portion of the team and not the entire team.

  3. If they’re isolating the whole football team, it means that tracking and tracing couldn’t determine who they came into contact with and how many. They’re are using the same workout rooms, locker room, drills, meetings, etc. Givem how closely you need to be with your teammates and coaches, there’s no way you could isolate just a portion of the team. Thats just irresponsible

  4. This has nothing to do with the NFL. The NFL is doing daily testing. There’s no need to quarantine the entire team if one player and two staffers test positive. They can quarantine the guys who are positive with little disruption to the rest of the team.

  5. granadafan says:
    July 24, 2020 at 4:05 pm

    If they’re isolating the whole football team, it means that tracking and tracing couldn’t determine who they came into contact with and how many. They’re are using the same workout rooms, locker room, drills, meetings, etc. Givem how closely you need to be with your teammates and coaches, there’s no way you could isolate just a portion of the team. Thats just irresponsible
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    Are people under the impression that everything is going to be business as usual? Workout rooms, locker rooms, and meeting rooms are having seats removed for distancing and schedules will be set so everyone isn’t in the same place at the same time.

    A recently published study in the CDC journal followed 5,706 covid-positive patients and 59,000 of their contacts. Only 12% of patients’ own households contracted the virus and less than 2% of non-household contacts contracted it. I don’t think we’re going to see the virus sweep through a team, especially with the extreme precautions they’re taking.

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