guidance for playing college sports during the coronavirus pandemic recommends testing players once a week within 72 hours of competition.
For typical Saturday football games, that means Wednesday would be the soonest athletes would be tested.Is that enough for a team of about 100 athletes playing a contact sport to get through a season without major disruptions?
Especially considering simply being exposed to someone who tests positive can land a player in quarantine for two weeks?“Seventy-two hours leaves open a big window for somebody to test negative on Wednesday, become infectious on Thursday or Friday or Saturday morning and then go onto the field and spread it around,” said Zachary Binney, an epidemiologist at Emory University.