twk said:
I never bought the Corbin story. I do think we have not heard the full story regarding the local health district's involvement. From what I've seen, I don't think the NCAA made the decision to test the entire NC State roster on its own. I'm pretty sure the local health department was the one pushing that.
This is what I'm wondering as well because the local health department was the only one who could make the call to test the vaccinated players based on the NCAA's procedures. Douglas County had the lowest level of community transmission for all six indicators utilized.
Since all of those indicators were far below the high or substantial community transmission levels, the only thing that could have triggered testing of the vaccinated players was the "Existence of localized community/public setting COVID-19 outbreak", which is defined as a " Sudden increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in a localized community or geographic area as determined by the local and state health department".
However, the health department came out strongly against the idea that any decision was made by them on either testing or disqualification, and the ESPN reporting makes it sound like the NCAA didn't involve them until after the call was made to test the vaccinated players.
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That night, the entire team took PCR tests, which are more invasive and are sent to a lab. While the six-member medical team was awaiting results, it consulted with the Douglas County (Nebraska) Health Department over various scenarios. The results came back late Friday night, during a long rain delay in the Texas-Mississippi State game.
