ATHENS – Power 5 conferences will soon launch plans for uniform minimum testing for COVID-19, including a policy outlining quarantine.
SI.com national writer Ross Dellenger reported that players who test positive for COVID-19 will be excluded from the competition for 10 days. Players who had contact with positive players would be out for 14 days.
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Sports Illustrated managed to draft a medical document drafted between the Power 5 conferences that says “it adds consistency to the virus testing protocol and response procedures.”
For the six page document:
• Teams must evaluate players within 72 hours of games.
• Soccer and basketball officials must be evaluated weekly
• Those who test positive should “isolate” for 10 days and until three days have passed without symptoms.
• Those who had contact with those who tested positive must remain in quarantine for 14 days.
• Off-season testing will be left up to the schools.
In addition, SI.com reports that there are “various” conditions that could lead to the school interrupting competition.
Among them,
• Lack of ability to isolate new positive cases or quarantine high-risk contact cases on campus;
• Inability to perform weekly tests;
• Local community or campus-wide testing rates that local public health officials consider unsafe;
• Inability to follow up on proper contact;
• Local public health officials say the hospital infrastructure cannot cope with an increase in COVID-related hospitalizations.
The 5-conference group and the NCAA, SI.com reported, are expected to publish their own guidelines.
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