re: COVID effect on regular season play

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Just give everyone the test again. If they test negative they’re fine. The 7-day quarantine made sense when you couldn’t test everyone exposed

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The chances that a coronavirus test will give you a false negative (indicating that you are not infected when you actually are infected) depend upon the type of test you have and when in the course of your infection the test is performed. There are two main types of tests:

nasal/throat swab tests and saliva tests, both of which detect the virus itself
blood tests that detect antibodies that your immune system produces in response to the infection.
If you get the nasal/throat swab or saliva test, you will get a false-negative test result:

100% of the time on the day you are exposed to the virus. (There are so few viral particles in your nose or saliva so soon after infection that the test cannot detect them.)
About 40% of the time if you are tested four days after exposure to the virus.
About 20% of the time if you develop symptoms and are tested three days after those symptoms started.

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Also if they test positive they’re fine as a college football player. But that’s a separate discussion

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This is the dumbest thing ever said on this thread.