23 Clemson football players have reportedly tested positive for COVID-19 since they returned to campus for voluntary workouts:
NEWS: @gmraynor reports that 23 — yes, 23 — Clemson football players have tested positive for COVID-19.
Up from just two last week. https://t.co/nfTQXp6W6L
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) June 19, 2020
A total of 28 throughout the entire athletic department:
28 players and staff across the athletic department. 23 are football players
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) June 19, 2020
None of the players have required hospitalization and workouts will continue. From The Athletic:
More than half of the players were asymptomatic, and there are no hospitalizations. Those who tested positive will be isolated for at least 10 days and need to be asymptomatic for the last three days before they can come out of the isolation. Known contacts, and anyone who was within six feet of someone who tested positive for 10 or more minutes, have been notified. They will isolate for 14 days. Voluntary workouts will not be shut down.
And in other college football news, players at UCLA are demanding a “third-party health official” as they reportedly don’t trust head coach Chip Kelly to make the right call on coronavirus:
Breaking: UCLA football players are demanding that a “third-party health official” be on hand for all football activities to see that protocols for COVID-19 are followed, saying they don't trust coach Chip Kelly’s program to act in their best interest https://t.co/8fMfHRn1dj
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) June 19, 2020
We’ll have to see if this catches on with other schools:
cough, cough, the headline on my column two days ago: As college football players find their voices, they stand to wield even more power: https://t.co/L2YoHVSRiN
— Nicole Auerbach (@NicoleAuerbach) June 19, 2020
There’s big money at stake and players have more power than ever:
— Nicole Auerbach (@NicoleAuerbach) June 19, 2020
Is a union in the future?
What if the UCLA situation turns into a unionization push? Here’s my story on college athletes not having union representation and where that leaves them most vulnerable while returning to play in a pandemic: https://t.co/0n0SztcnGc
— Nicole Auerbach (@NicoleAuerbach) June 19, 2020
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