Jeremy Pruitt announces Tennessee has stopped practicing due to positive COVID tests
A minor setback has been experienced on Rocky Top as Tennessee has stopped practice for the moment.
Jeremy Pruitt announced the news during his Friday media availability, noting that the program had very few cases of COVID outside of a July testing date after Tennessee gave its players time away from the facility.
While he would not announce how many positive tests Tennessee had in its building, Pruitt expressed this decision was more of a precaution to stop a spread than a massive outbreak within the program.
“This week, we had a few more positive tests, so I elected to shut practice down,” Pruitt said on Friday. “We retested everybody again this morning to see where we’re at. Our number one priority here is to be able to protect everybody associated with our program — and that’s what we’re going to continue to do.
“And as we get the results back, we’ll see exactly where we’re at, at we’ll start practice back accordingly.”
Tennessee was slated to practice on Friday that was missed and currently has a practice scheduled for Saturday that could be missed following this news.
During his Friday press conference, Pruitt was asked if Tennessee had a specific number that needs to be reached to shut down practice.
“We’ve not put a number on the testing, it’s just we’ve been very low to zero, for the most part of the entire summer – with the exception of one week,” Pruitt added. “So, wasn’t at zero or one this week, so we want to make sure that we figure out why.”
The key to Pruitt’s decision to shut things down was to stamp out any possibility of a spread within the program.
“We want to make sure that it’s not spreading within our building, because to this point, we’ve had zero spread and the tracing from within our building,” he added. “That’s just one of the things we wanted to make sure of.”
The state of Tennessee had a large number of virus deaths in the last 24 hours. The total number of 11-20 & 21-30 year olds in the state that have been diagnosed as positive as of yesterday is 51,690, and as of yesterday the number of state virus deaths from people between 11-30 is 17, but that doesn’t include an additional case report today, which would make it 18. In Knox County, 41.62% of all Covid cases were between the ages of 11 and 30, and there have been 5 deaths in that age group.
Less then 300 people under the age of 24 have died from Covid in the entire country. It’s way down the list of concerns for young people.
You just love spreading lies. Must be a 45 lover.
He’s a loser and so are his sheep.
You people will have a reckoning for all the lies and treason.
Don’t be bringing that mess to Columbia in a month.
Did you read the article?
Sounds like a safety check over the weekend before he starts practice next week. Smart idea.
Yep, an ounce of prevention beats a pound of cure, or something like that. He’s playing the long game.
It’s all about what the football players are doing when not at practice
Ole prudent Pruitt
Me thinks there will be lots of SLOPPY SEC FOOTBALL, first week or so. But sloppy beats canceling the season. Just keep doing whatever it takes. But we all need all the practice that we can get.
PS. I understand this. But all the walking out of practice to protest. How does that help? That is like saying. All you football fans need to pay for police shootings. It’s beyond silly to me!!!
King Negan