Mountain West school announces closure of campus facilities amid 8 positive COVID-19 tests
Since college athletes have started returning to campuses across the country, positive COVID-19 tests have forced a few schools to hit pause on voluntary workouts.
First, it was Houston. Then, Kansas State had to suspend workouts for a couple of weeks due to positive tests. Now, a third school announced it is closing campus facilities.
Per Boise State reporter B.J. Rains, the school is closing facilities due to 8 positive or presumed positive tests over the last 2 days:
Boise State announces they are temporarily closing campus facilities due to eight positive or presumed positive COVID-19 cases in the last 48 hours.
Not yet sure if this includes voluntary workouts for student-athletes. pic.twitter.com/cvY6nk0mdn
— B.J. Rains (@BJRains) June 23, 2020
As Rains mentioned, the release from Boise State doesn’t mention athletes specifically, so we’ll see how football workouts are affected.
The closure will take place from June 23-28, per the release from the school.
The SKY if FALLING!! I think I’ll quit calling it the Kung Fu Flu and start calling it the Poontang Pox – seems like all the hype and overreactions have a certain “effect” on certain people! Stop the Insanity and get back to your lives!!
Agree. My company has operated with over 100 employees in on office building setting since the beginning of the pandemic. Up until last week only 1 positive case. Last week we had 2…didnt panic and did not shut just kept on rolling. Like these athletes all are asymptomatic. People losing their mind over this. For the normal healthy person under 65 it is not that serious. Certainly there are exceptions but we must keep moving forward with life. Funny during the mass protests COVID took a back burner…not its front page again.
SDS should have its own doomsday clock for the possibility of no college football this Fall.
If it started at 5 minutes before Midnight on March 10, what is it today? Is it maybe 2 minutes before Midnight now???
A Mountain West School? Why not just put Boise State in the headline. Everyone here knows who Boise State is.