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As the NFL and NFL Players Association try to agree on protocols for training camp, preseason (if any), and the regular season, testing continues to be the factor that will have the most dramatic impact on the training run. final plan
It needs to be readily available. You need to be reliable. You need to be fast. For now, there is no guarantee that all three boxes are checked.
The powers that be have believed for months that in August or September there will be evidence of rapid results based on saliva or a finger stick. Last week, the director of the National Institutes of Health expressed optimism that a test that produces results in less than an hour will be available before the football season begins.
“We want to see Americans have a chance to have some normal experiences of enjoying life,” Dr. Francis Collins told a Senate subcommittee about the availability of evidence in time for the first kick of a soccer ball. “I think this should be possible.”
That is not the case today, as evidenced by delayed testing results for the Washington Nationals.
The NFLPA wants daily tests at the start of training camp, with a frequency re-evaluated based on the false negative rate. The union also wants to go from the nasal swab to a saliva-based test as quickly as possible.
Ideally, all players, coaches and other key personnel will be evaluated daily. It is essential to keep anyone who may have the virus out of the premises, the changing room, the driving range and / or the stadium. Even with daily testing, false negatives have been a problem in other settings; a false negative could light the fuse in an outbreak for an NFL team.
