The Vikings got good news Saturday morning, when another two rounds of COVID-19 testing turned up no positive cases before players took part in an extended walk-through and boarded the flight to Houston for Sunday's game against the Texans.
Friday's PCR tests and Saturday morning's point-of-care tests turned up negative results for all the Vikings nearly a week after they played the Tennessee Titans, whose outbreak has grown to 18 players, coaches or team personnel since Sept. 24 after another three people tested positive Saturday.
While some Vikings coaches and staffers had "moderate-risk contacts" with the Titans before and after last weekend's game, athletic trainer and infection control officer Eric Sugarman said earlier this week that in-game contact between players is often brief and that the team viewed pregame and postgame conversations as longer, higher-risk contacts.