Posted on 01/22/2022 2:11:19 AM PST by nickcarraway
The league sent a memo to teams Friday night explaining the changes
In just a few short days, the NFL will know the four remaining teams that have a shot at Super Bowl LVI. With the divisional round this weekend, the league has reportedly again decided to adjust its COVID-19 protocols. Last month, the league shortened the quarantine period for all players regardless of vaccination status, and this week, the NFL is taking it a step further.
According to NFL Media's Tom Pelissero, the NFL sent a memo to the eight teams still alive in the playoffs with updated COVID-19 testing protocols. Per Pelissero, the NFL has eliminated the distinction between vaccinated and unvaccinated players, which means those who are unvaccinated will no longer be subject to daily testing.
While there is no longer daily testing, all players and tiered staff will be subject to: Enhanced symptom screening, symptom-based testing and targeted surveillance testing. According to Pelissero, those with the NFL and NFLPA are seeing the Omicron variant wave receding, and that the new targeted testing is working with the shortened quarantine. Pelissero reports that of all the unvaccinated players on playoff teams still playing, only about a dozen haven't had the coronavirus yet.
It appears the NFL is close to once again pulling off a safe and successful season, but not everyone is out of the woods yet. While this update means that we could see even fewer negative tests, a player still could test positive late in the week and miss a game.
Yup, they’d love to keep it going through the election, but that’s not going to help them. So now, suddenly the virus will be conquered.
I wonder how much sports betting has to do with this...
It’s the NFL...I’m pretty sure somehow this is racist.
Translation: “We can’t have the chaos and dysfunction of ‘COVID protocol’ during the NFL playoffs.”
Yep. Now that they are in the playoffs, money takes precedence.
The NHL is going to stop testing ayers who are “asymptomatic” after the All Star weekend.
They’ll only test if symptoms are reported.
The NHL is going to stop testing players who are “asymptomatic” after the All Star weekend.
They’ll only test if symptoms are reported.
Agreed. I keep explaining to my liberal friends that this covid “pandemic” has always been political.
Heard yesterday that NOT ONE player on any of the eight remaining NFL play-off teams is on the league’s COVID list!
I tell ya, it’s a MIRACLE!!!
It’s as if 345 Park Ave has become Lourdes!
Follow the $cience.
And the money...
Yet schools are locked down tight.
“NFL Adjusts COVID-19 Protocols Again: Unvaccinated Players Reportedly No Longer Subject to Daily Testing”
apparently the settled “science” got unsettled AGAIN ... i just wish “science” would make up its damn mind ... (you hear that, Anthony?)
“I wonder how much sports betting has to do with this”
probably everything ... [btw, how long before the big betting scandal hits professional sports, and how big will it be?]
Science in the United States is dead, a corrupt shell, tainted by government.
The NFL is the same organization that aligned themselves with Communist organizations such as Black Lives MatterTM pushing a fictional narrative to promote their agenda.
Professional sports have become nothing more than a scripted irritainment event. (Oddly enough at the same time state governments legalized gambling on it). Good riddance to all of them.
Playoffs matter.
Cannot have Tom Brady and Cole Beasly sit out a playoff game because of a non functioning test
President Trump did state that one day, poof, the virus will be gone
Since none of the NFL’s actions has ever had anything to with science — or with courage, for that matter — it’s not at all surprising that the “re-defined science” of the scared-senseless league is based purely on money ... which, as far as the Fauci Flu is concerned, is fine by me ... an improvement, actually.
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