"The N.F.L.’s second weekend of the season has been marred by injuries to many star players — Saquon Barkley of the New York Giants and Nick Bosa of the San Francisco 49ers, among others.
One piece of good news, though: The league’s efforts to lower the risk from the coronavirus have largely been successful, so far. Unlike Major League Baseball and other leagues that had to reschedule games after outbreaks, the N.F.L. has not had to cancel any games. There have been no mass outbreaks in any locker rooms. No stars have been forced to miss games because they contracted the virus.
Between Sept. 6 and Sept. 12, which included the season opening game in Kansas City between the Chiefs and Houston Texans, only two players were confirmed to have tested positive. Five other league personnel tested positive as well.
The owner of the Washington Football Team, Dan Snyder, and his wife will quarantine “out of an abundance of caution” after they recently came into contact with someone who tested positive for the coronavirus, though the couple tested negative, the team’s physician said in a statement.
In a league with more than 2,000 players and hundreds of coaches and trainers, the number of positive results were relatively small.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/world/covid-coronavirus.html#link-15b73035
One piece of good news, though: The league’s efforts to lower the risk from the coronavirus have largely been successful, so far. Unlike Major League Baseball and other leagues that had to reschedule games after outbreaks, the N.F.L. has not had to cancel any games. There have been no mass outbreaks in any locker rooms. No stars have been forced to miss games because they contracted the virus.
Between Sept. 6 and Sept. 12, which included the season opening game in Kansas City between the Chiefs and Houston Texans, only two players were confirmed to have tested positive. Five other league personnel tested positive as well.
The owner of the Washington Football Team, Dan Snyder, and his wife will quarantine “out of an abundance of caution” after they recently came into contact with someone who tested positive for the coronavirus, though the couple tested negative, the team’s physician said in a statement.
In a league with more than 2,000 players and hundreds of coaches and trainers, the number of positive results were relatively small.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/world/covid-coronavirus.html#link-15b73035
