Reports: Florida's COVID cases in double digits
On Tuesday, Florida announced 5 football players had tested positive for COVID-19. The news came ahead of the shutdown of all team activities. New reports say the number is up to 19 positive cases.
Payton Titus of The Independent Florida Alligator was first to report 19 cases on the football team. Titus shared there was some pushback from sources that the number might have been too high, but later published the number after additional reporting. Mark Long of the Associated Press shared that an AP source confirmed that there are now 19 positive tests on the football team.
Florida insider Frank Frangie of 1010XL Jacksonville shared on Tuesday afternoon that the Gators are planning to practice Wednesday and play LSU on Saturday.
Any new testing information and results of contact tracing Wednesday figure to be important as to deciding whether the UF-LSU game is able to be played. The game is currently scheduled for 4 p.m. ET Saturday in Gainesville, airing on ESPN.
19? Is that athletic dept or football team exclusively?
It says on the football team.. That would be tough when it comes to contact tracing to be able to field a team IMO.
They’ve released reports including the whole dept. whatever it’s bad
Unfortunately this is the type of news we all feared would impact the season. To G8rNation, here’s hoping all affected make a full and healthy recovery.
Marshgator. Many of the other athletic programs at UF have already been put on hold or shut down completely. The football program is now on pause until Wednesday. I expect it will be, because of the numbers infected and contract tracing keep a bunch more players from playing Saturday (as well as coaches not being able to be on the field), shut down on Wednesday until the cases are cleared. I believe that takes 14 days. I personally do not see this season being completed as I believe cases will increase substantially when colder weather gets here and with the new virus strain being so much more infectious that the stain back in March.
I that case I hope we beat Bama this weekend for the national championship…
Seriously doubt this game gets played on Saturday. Dec 12.
Don’t think 5 is enough to force postponement of the game. The SEC has set clear guidelines on that. Hopefully all the players affected are cared for and no others catch it.
Nobleman, it is 19 and contract tracing will make it more like 40 or more. Unless second tests come back showing false negative, no way will Florida be playing LSU this Saturday. And I think this situation is going to become commonplace for most schools as we head further into fall. CDC says the current mutation is far more infectious than the one back in March, and Johnson and Johnson has put the vaccine development on pause due to a severe illness developing in one of the vaccine volunteers.
Many companies are working on a vaccine world wide. One getting shut down doesn’t mean a lot. We don’t know what the contact tracing will add, if anything. The players have to be smarter.
If 19 tested positive, how many of those 19 were in contact with other players and/or coaches that will need to be quarantined? I’d think most if not all. So no way the number available for the game doesn’t grow. If multiple starters are out, no way Florida plays.
@Nature
If it’s 19 going on 40, agree the gm will be called. I hope that’s not the case. If it is, could be a very bad sign going forward because as you say, it’s going to get much worse later in the Fall and Winter. Crazy year……
Starting to look like at least 2 games now on December 12, assuming the country isn’t in the grips of a hot war by then.
I would have laughed at the above statement a year ago, but now, it isn’t a laughing matter. Nothing after November 3 is guaranteed now.
This is going to be a eye opening experience. UFHEALTH is on top of it.
How is it that anyone would need their eyes open at this point. This has been going on since March. Multiple football games have already been cancelled. This is just a case of idiot kids not doing the right thing.
It was a top 10 team. Duh.
Pack the swamp!!!!
LSU will kick Thier asses. Play Saturday.
Sadly agree…dear leader won’t go quietly
Well the CDC data shows that they all should recover and be well again. Wish them the best.
AGAIN: “Cases” without context–which, notice AGAIN that is ALL that gets reported–means little to NOTHING! How many are sick? How many are even showing symptoms?! Probably none. What’s more, a positive test may not even mean that there is a real case. (Ask GA State!) The media is hyping this because of Mullen’s statements about “filling the Swamp.” I wouldn’t be a bit surprised to find out that the numbers were faked simply to get at Mullen.
exactly TGT88, Winston Churchill said “the first casualty in any war is the truth”.
So UF is providing “fake” positive COVID numbers for its football tm to make their HC “ look bad” for political reasons??? Do you clowns really believe all the B(Bravo)-S(Silo) you post??
DITTO, Exactly my thoughts. Well, except I called it BravoSierra….
Yes they do. Laughable that they would post such BS. UF has one of the top healthcare teaching and research facilities in the world. UF knows what they are doing and intelligent people believe in science.
I think he said “cases without context”, nothing about fake. Also, it is true that many positives are wrong, as well as many negatives, so context really does matter, imho.
Tgt88: “I wouldn’t be a bit surprised to find out that the numbers were FAKED simply to get at Mullen”
Wolf man quotes Churchill with the first casualty of war being the truth.
The only one taking them out of context is you.
In my defense, I ignored the last sentence of his post due to exceeding my mental capacity limit of 4 lines of comprehension max! Any dribble past that point just seems “fake” to me…lol.
OK, I confess, you got me there. Contextually speaking, to many false negatives and false positives for my liking, with all the political reaction taking place assuming positives are data points and negatives are not…but hey, I’m not a health expert so what do I know
I’m hoping all of these players recover and aren’t impacted long term by this. That’s really rough and I’m sure they are all feeling either angry, scared, or both. Quick recoveries
They should be feeling stupid for getting the virus during the season.
We don’t know full details yet, could have been a staffer got it and spread it to a bunch of players. I’m not out here trying to defend gators or anything, but I would hate to see any careers cut short for any reason. Especially when the behavior modeled by their coach was, pack the stands, company is fine.
Idiot kids…stupid kids…wow LSUMC, your team sucking sure has you in a grumpy mood this year…lol.
How about simply kids being kids away from home? I can’t speak for you (obviously) but if I were a 19 year old college kid again I too would be idiot and stupid and drinking and chasing girls and I certainly wouldn’t let a mild flu get in the way of a chance of hooking up with that hot looking head G8r cheerleader…life must go on. Enthusiasm creates bubbles, it doesn’t keep them from popping…adora svitak
Man, Florida will do anything to avoid playing LSU.
Yeah. Especially this year.
Don’t ya know it…lol
Can’t believe those SEC scheduling rat bahstahds gave us Arkansas instead of LSU this year, it’s a 1980 conspiracy I tell you