Sports leagues are looking for ways to have their Covid and eat cake, too.
When Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for Covid in March 2020 and the NBA shut its doors, it sent an unmistakable message that the world had changed in a fundamental and irrevocable way. If the leagues shut their doors again, the message would again be unmistakable: If we’re not quite back to where we started, we’re way too close to that point for comfort.
However, the league and the players union also loosened the requirements for the number of times a player needs to test negative for Covid before returning to the field. Although the NFL’s chief medical officer, Dr. Allen Sills, insisted this is just a fine-tuning it feels much more like a feint, a trial balloon, as the NFL — and all leagues — look for a way to avoid taking their stars out of the game.
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