While the league maintains that health and safety are priorities for the upcoming season, the real goal is to get back to making as much money as possible as soon as possible. That means having fans in attendance for more games at a higher capacity, something that could be achieved more easily by giving the decreasing COVID-19 trends that much more time to play out.
Our daily update is published. States reported 1.4 million tests, 116k cases, 92,880 currently hospitalized, and 3,486 deaths. pic.twitter.com/rofJEWWuvb
— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking) February 2, 2021
Tuesday saw states report the fewest new cases since November 2 and most states are seeing a significant drop in deaths as well.