Outbreaks on the Tennessee Titans, New England Patriots and Notre Dame's football team had one thing in common: they were traced back to members of the team eating together
The NFL season has been sacked by bursts of Covid-19 cases over the last several weeks. Games have been postponed. Teams have been shut down. Safety protocols have been overhauled.
Yet there’s a sliver of hope for football—and many other sports—in this rash of cases. The virus doesn’t appear to have spread from team to team on the field. That echoes the experience of other professional sports that have played during the pandemic without transmitting the virus during competition.
It’s everything else that’s the problem. Traveling and sharing a locker room are more suspect than humongous people tackling one another. And one ritual may be scarier than everything else: having dinner together. Breaking bread—as a team or in small gatherings—played a starring role in team outbreaks at Notre Dame and on both the Tennessee Titans and New England Patriots, for example. But those teams’ subsequent football games didn’t create additional problems: their opponents tested negative.
Most teams haven't disclosed how they think Covid outbreaks have begun, but the leagues have flagged where they think problems lie by how they change their protocols. The NFL is focusing more on what happens off the field than on. Sitting down to a meal with a team member who subsequently tests positive for coronavirus now may get the guest a mandatory invitation to a five-day isolation period—with no option to escape by registering negative tests.
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