NFL: Several teams canceling, altering activities following testing irregularities (false positives)

[jmyrlefuller]

https://www.nfl.com/news/several-teams-changing-canceling-activities-following-testing-irregularities

More than 100,000 novel coronavirus tests have been conducted since training camp began, Pelissero added, with a positivity rate that's a fraction of 1 percent and dropping. "A sudden flood of positives from different testing sites, all processed by the same lab," Pelissero said, "raises a red flag."

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[mountaineer]

"A sudden flood of positives from different testing sites, all processed by the same lab," Pelissero said, "raises a red flag."

We saw the same thing in the general public. Who knows how many false positives there have been since March. 

Clay Travis   @ClayTravis
77 NFL players tested positive for the coronavirus. All of them were false positives. So how many people in America have tested positive but never actually had Covid? Most people don’t have the resources to get their tests double checked.
10:01 PM · Aug 23, 2020·

Former team doctor for the San Diego Chargers writes on Clay Travis's website, Outkick:

... Ideally all tests are 100% accurate but there are known false positives and false negatives. In the end, false positives are “better” than false negatives. A false positive might lead to a brief unnecessary quarantine but a false negative could lead to unknowingly spreading of the disease.

Overall, the NFL has handed the pandemic well but there is still lots to work out. The league has been adapting the policy on the fly. For example, once a player tests positive and is then cleared, he is not tested again for another month as these people are likely to continue to test positive due to residual virus even though they do not have COVID.  ...

Full article at Outkick

[LadyLiberty]

I wonder if they were using a Thermo Fisher Scientific TaqPath COVID-19 Combo Kit:  https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/letters-health-care-providers/risk-inaccurate-results-thermo-fisher-scientific-taqpath-covid-19-combo-kit-letter-clinical

[dfwgator]

I hope there's no season, more people will realize they don't need the NFL.

[mountaineer]

I hope there's no season, more people will realize they don't need the NFL.

Especially after Roger Goodell's idiotic comment:

Roger Goodell: 'Wish we had listened earlier' to what Colin Kaepernick was protesting
    ESPN


NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said that he wishes "we had listened earlier" to what Colin Kaepernick was trying to bring attention to when he began kneeling for the national anthem in 2016.

Goodell was asked on former NFL linebacker Emmanuel Acho's video series, "Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man," what he would say in a public apology to Kaepernick.

Goodell responded by expressing remorse about the lack of dialogue with the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback, saying that the league would have benefited from a conversation with Kaepernick.  ...

ESPN

[PeteS in CA]

https://www.boston.com/sports/nfl/2020/08/23/nfl-has-77-apparently-false-positive-covid-19-tests-from-lab

NFL has 77 apparently false positive COVID-19 tests from lab

NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL had 77 positive COVID-19 tests from 11 teams re-examined by a New Jersey lab after false positives, and all those tests came back negative.

The league asked the New Jersey lab BioReference to investigate the results, and those 77 tests are being re-tested once more to make sure they were false positives.
...
There are five labs nationwide that service the 32 teams, with only the New Jersey facility having the false positives this weekend.