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NFL ends daily COVID-19 testing for all players
The NFL is curbing each day testing of all gamers, vaccinated or unvaccinated, for COVID-19.
In a memo despatched to the 32 golf equipment and obtained by The Related Press, the league mentioned Friday that medical consultants from the NFL and the gamers’ union agreed to the change. These docs have seen sufficient proof of a lower in optimistic checks within the final month to really feel comfy with dropping each day checks.
This can be a normal general inside view of SoFi Stadium because the Los Angeles Rams tackle the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sept. 26, 2021, in Inglewood, Calif. A late-season surge in COVID-19 instances had the NFL in 2021 trying rather a lot like 2020, when the coronavirus led to vital disruptions, postponements and altering protocols. The rising omicron variant figures to play a job all through the playoffs, together with the Tremendous Bowl in Los Angeles, the place California has all the time been aggressive with insurance policies to fight the unfold of the virus.
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Final month, weekly testing for vaccinated gamers and personnel was stopped, however anybody who reported signs of COVID-19 or was a part of focused surveillance nonetheless was subjected to testing.
“Following session with our collectively retained infectious illness consultants, the NFL and NFL Gamers Affiliation have up to date the NFL-NFLPA COVID-19 protocols to remove the excellence between vaccinated and unvaccinated gamers to find out testing cadence,” the memo mentioned. “Efficient instantly, all gamers and tiered workers can be topic to strategic and focused testing.”
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell seems on earlier than the Las Vegas Raiders play the Los Angeles Chargers at SoFi Stadium Oct. 4, 2021, in Inglewood, Calif.
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The league will proceed symptom-based testing and screening for signs.
“This complete, symptom-based method to testing displays our latest expertise with the omicron variant and conforms to present public well being suggestions and finest practices employed in well being care,” the memo mentioned, “and provides one of the best alternative for figuring out and treating instances promptly and avoiding unfold throughout the facility.”
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