As the NFL works not only to reduce the spread of COVID-19 between contaminated gamers but examine potential team offenses of COVID procedures, its not out of the realm of possibility that the league could put a hold on the whole 2020 season. Asked Wednesday on NFL Network whether a momentary pause to the regular-season schedule is a choice amidst ongoing break out in Tennessee, in addition to extra COVID cases in Las Vegas and New England, the NFLs chief medical officer validated as much.
” Weve stated all along every options on the table,” Allen Sills told Judy Battista. “Weve never ever taken any option off the table, which consists of some kind of pause or reset or any other kind of alternative plans.”
Sills continued by stating that the NFL is currently focused on reviewing procedures and team-by-team scenarios while touting the research study already assembled since the league set up COVID standards throughout training school.
” Lets also keep in mind weve got 9 to 10 weeks of data now, with over 400,000 tests, and weve had about 83 favorable cases,” Sills stated. “And in the frustrating majority of those cases, weve not seen transmissions. Weve only seen it occur now in Tennessee, and perhaps in New England … Weve stated all along, we understand this is going to be difficult.
The schedule itself, of course, has actually ended up being vulnerable in the wake of the newest favorable tests, thus the earlier verification that a season pause might eventually be in order. Both the Titans and Patriots, who are fighting multiple COVID cases, might or might not have the ability to take the field for their Week 5 games this weekend now that their centers are closed.
