NFL chief medical officer Dr. Allen Sills says between Aug. 1 to Aug. 21, there have been 68 confirmed positive COVID tests out of 7,190 tested individuals across the league – 0.95% incidence rate. Lower than in most all communities.
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Of those positive tests, Sills says there is a seven times higher incidence rate among unvaccinated players -- 2.2% in unvaccinated, 0.3% in vaccinated.
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NFL general counsel Larry Ferazani says the league has proposed to the union testing fully vaccinated individuals once a week – rather than once every two weeks – in response to recent data. The union has been pushing for daily testing for everyone.
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The NFL has already implemented "enhanced mitigation protocol" targeting teams with COVID clusters (e.g. #Titans), working with the union to reimplement daily testing, masking, distancing, etc. Sills says they've seen clusters, but no outbreaks with uncontrolled, ongoing spread.
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Sills says "almost all" positive cases across the NFL have been the Delta variant, confirmed by genomic sequencing. Very different disease, symptom profile, transmissibility, spread. But says vaccinated individuals have had very mild upper respiratory illness, shorter duration.
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Ferazani says the NFL has been pushing for mandatory vaccinations for players and still is. "We would still love to see that mandate go into effect tomorrow." Current player vaccination rate is almost 93%. That means around 200 players leaguewide not vaccinated.
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He doesn’t have anything against getting tested. He just doesn’t wanna be vaccinated
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But daiiy testing costs more so that hurts the pockets of the NFL. I believe they do end up testing daily though when it's all said and done
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I really don't see the point in 2, or even 1 week testing. Do it daily or not at all.
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