NFL Week 15

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Originally Posted by Chief X_Phackter

Yesterday:

“We can’t apply 2020 solutions to the 2021 problems we’re having,” NFL Chief Medical Officer Allen Sills said, adding the league does not expect to return to the 2020 policy dictating daily testing for the virus.

“Testing is one of the tools that we have at our disposal, and it's a very useful tool in certain areas,” Sills said. “But what testing doesn't do is prevent transmission, and we've known that always. … What we're trying to do is prevent spread within the facility and keep people from testing positive.”

It's the blind leading the blind here. While testing doesn't 'in and of itself' prevent transmission, knowing who is positive and being able to react to that in a timely manner would in fact prevent transmission.

This is that bullshit. Daily testing would mean limiting the spread and helping ensure teams don't put 20 players and 11 starters on the covid list days before a critical game against a division rival. Also - daily testing would limit transmission because you would immediately isolate players who have tested positive vs. testing them once every two weeks.

Gonna start tagging Allen Sills as a league hack.