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Seahawks vs Rams Game (Dec 19) In Jeopardy As Rams Have 25 Players On COVID List...
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Rams https://www.therams.com/
Seahawks https://www.seahawks.com/
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LA Times https://www.latimes.com/sports/rams/story/2021-12-16/rams-players-covid-list-von-miller-seattle-seahawks-nfl
Seattle Times https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/seahawks/seahawks-place-wr-tyler-lockett-and-rb-alex-collins-on-the-covid-19-reserve-list/
Rams https://www.therams.com/
Seahawks https://www.seahawks.com/
NEWS
LA Times https://www.latimes.com/sports/rams/story/2021-12-16/rams-players-covid-list-von-miller-seattle-seahawks-nfl
Seattle Times https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/seahawks/seahawks-place-wr-tyler-lockett-and-rb-alex-collins-on-the-covid-19-reserve-list/
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Effective immediately, all 32 NFL teams will be placed in intensive COVID-19 protocols until the conclusion of Week 15. This means the reimposition of mandatory mask wearing in team facilities, social distancing, grab-and-go meal service in team cafeterias, all-virtual meetings, limits on the number of people allowed in weight rooms and restrictions on activities outside the facility.
Teams already in intensive protocols due to ongoing outbreaks will continue daily testing of all players and personnel -- vaccinated or not -- but the rest of the teams won't be subject to daily testing.
Also effective immediately, the league and the NFLPA will institute changes in the return-to-play COVID-19 protocols that will make it easier for players who are vaccinated and asymptomatic to return to practice and games.
Under the previous protocols, a vaccinated individual who tests positive for COVID-19 has to produce two negative tests 24 hours apart before being cleared to return. The new protocols relax that requirement and could enable teams such as the Cleveland Browns, Los Angeles Rams and Washington Football Team to get some players back for this weekend's games.
In creating the new return-to-play protocols, the NFL and NFLPA focused on a new metric that measures the viral load of a player, known as the "cycle threshold" (CT). In essence, the CT value can measure whether a player is still contagious, even if in some cases he would still test positive on a traditional test.
That testing can begin as soon as one day after the initial positive and could significantly shorten the amount of time a vaccinated player spends away from the team facility.
There are now three ways for a vaccinated player to return under the new protocols:
• Two PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests that are either negative or produce a CT value of 35 or greater.
• One PCR test that is either negative or produces a CT value of 35 or greater, and a negative Mesa test result taken with 24 hours of the PCR test. (Mesa tests usually return results in less than an hour.)
• Two negative Mesa tests.
I am bummed because I was personally looking forward to McVay pink socking Seattle down 25 players but now he just has to win the old fashioned way.
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Seattle Times (click for full article) https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/seahawks/following-increase-in-covid-19-cases-and-three-postponed-games-nfl-reduces-testing-for-asymptomatic-vaccinated-players-and-staffers/
In moves aimed at avoiding any more disruptions to the season, the NFL announced new COVID-19 protocols Saturday that will take effect following this weekend’s games.
Maybe the most significant is that fully vaccinated players and staffers will no longer have to undergo weekly testing.
If a fully vaccinated player or staffer reports feeling symptoms, they will have to isolate immediately and be tested and will not be permitted to interact with the team until producing a negative test.
While that struck some observers as putting trust in the honor system, the NFL stated that all players and staff “will be subject to ‘stringent symptom screening’ prior to entering a team facility each day before being permitted to enter in order to ensure any symptomatic individual will be tested prior to entering.”
Under the new protocols reached in agreement with the NFL Players Association, there will also be “targeted” testing that includes “sample selection based on position group and staff cohorts.”
Unvaccinated players will still have to test daily.
The moves came after more than 130 players were placed on the COVID-19 reserve list this week, which compelled the NFL to change the schedules for three games to try to allow some of those players to become eligible to play, including the Seahawks’ game against the Rams.
That game was scheduled for Sunday at 1:25 p.m. and will now be played Tuesday at 4 p.m. with the NFL’s hope that some of the 29 players the Rams have placed on the list will be able to return by Tuesday.
The Seahawks have two players on the list — receiver Tyler Lockett and running back Alex Collins.
According to a tweet from Tom Pelissero of the NFL Network — the league’s official media arm — “the NFL believes overwhelming majority of recent cases are milder Omicron variant.”
In a statement released to the NFL Network, commissioner Roger Goodell also cited the Omicron variant as a reason for changing the league’s testing strategy.
“Medical information strongly indicates that this variant is significantly more contagious but possibly less severe than prior variants, particularly for people who are fully vaccinated and have received a booster shot,” Goodell wrote. “Our experience with the Omicron variant is fully consistent with this expectation — while more players and staff are testing positive, roughly two-thirds of those individuals are asymptomatic, most of the remaining individuals have only mild symptoms, and the virus appears to clear positive individuals more rapidly than was true with the Delta and other variants. In many respects, Omicron appears to be a very different illness from the one we first confronted in the spring of 2020.”
Players can continue to volunteer for testing at any time.
The Seahawks had been testing players twice a week — on Mondays and Wednesday.
Placed on the list Sunday were cornerback D.J. Reed, right tackle Brandon Shell, running back Travis Homer, defensive end Kerry Hyder, Jr. and two practice squad players, cornerback Mike Jackson and guard Pier-Olivier Lestage. A source confirmed all six were reported as having tested positive.
Those six join receiver Tyler Lockett and running back Alex Collins, both of whom went on the list on Thursday.
Lockett, Reed and Shell are all starters while Collins has been starting for much of the season before giving way of late to Rashaad Penny. Hyder is a key part of Seattle’s defensive-end rotation, having started seven games this season and played in all 13.
Defensive back Grant Haley also has been restored from the COVID list to the practice squad.
With the moves, the Rams are down from 29 players earlier in the week to 23 on the reserve/COVID-19 list, including starting right tackle Rob Havenstein, outside linebacker Von Miller, safety Jordan Fuller and tight end Tyler Higbee.
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