infectious disease experts who helped write the SEC's early safety & testing guidelines:
[...] All the while, SEC schools rushed to get football players back on campus in early June. Against all logic, the infectious disease expert who was helping to write the league’s guidelines [...] did not recommend frequent COVID-19 testing, leading several schools to initially say they would only test players who were symptomatic.
“The problem is, with our testing, it doesn’t tell us anything,” Dr. Stevan Whitt of the University of Missouri told The Athletic in arguably the most regrettable public comment from any medical official working in sports during the entire pandemic.
Not good. I hope he either misspoke or it was taken out of context.
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source:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/dan-wolken/2020/07/14/college-football-2020-sec-trouble-covid-19-outbreak/5432797002/
Note: This article is from July, but I came across it today while reading about the Big Ten's efforts to pressure other leagues into cancelling their seasons.
Edited by zounami at 17:17:00 on 09/13/20