Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford was at first placed on the reserve/COVID -19 test over what he and the Lions later on said was a false favorable. This declaration sounds like the league suspects it had lots of incorrect positives.
The league reported today that a person laboratory it utilizes reported lots of favorable tests, while all the other laboratories the league utilizes reported no positive tests.
” Saturdays day-to-day COVID screening returned numerous favorable tests from each of the clubs serviced by the very same lab in New Jersey,” the league said in a statement. “We are working with our screening partner, BioReference, to investigate these results, while the clubs work to validate or rule out the positive tests.
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COVID-19 testing isnt perfect, and today the NFL is faced with the question of what to do if an unexpected, sharp increase in favorable tests appears most likely to be the outcome of a lab mistake than a real outbreak.
