Yarn: Packers Player Examined Sure for COVID-19; GB to Protect Digital Conferences
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The Inexperienced Bay Packers are maintaining digital conferences Monday after a participant reportedly tested positive for COVID-19, per Tom Pelissero of NFL Network.
In accordance with Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “This is able to presumably well be the Packers‘ first positive since follow began in coaching camp and formulation there will be some contact tracing going on to study up on if anybody needs to be quarantined. Players wear trackers at work so that they’ll know if there became prolonged publicity to the positive participant.”
The Packers launched the next assertion:
A skill outbreak will be subtle for Inexperienced Bay and the NFL. For one, the Packers possess a short turnaround this week with a sport in opposition to the San Francisco 49ers on Thursday Night time Soccer (although that would give the league the leeway to push the game again to Sunday or Monday evening). Nonetheless the group moreover already had its bye week, which can presumably well fabricate it subtle to reschedule the game.
Up to now, the Packers possess handiest placed one participant on the reserve/COVID-19 checklist.
The Minnesota Vikings will moreover enter the NFL’s intensive COVID-19 protocol after taking half in the Packers on Sunday. Ditto for the Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steeler after Ravens defensive again Marlon Humphrey announced Monday he had tested positive for the coronavirus:
The sing for the league heading into the winter months is that the novel surge of coronavirus cases around the united states would possibly presumably well influence its gamers and coaches—or its capability to host followers, even in restricted numbers—causing extra complications as the NFL attempts to attain a stout 16-sport season.