The greatest COVID-19 threat to college football players this fall might not be on the field, but rather on the rest of campus, a newly published study shows.
In an article posted on the Journal of the American Medical Association’s JAMA Network Open site last Friday, researchers from Yale, Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital wrote that the safe reopening of college campuses may require testing of all students every two days and “uncompromising vigilance and continuous attention to good prevention practices.”
A. David Paltiel, a professor at the Yale School of Public Health, said in an interview with USA TODAY Sports that he and his research partners recognize “we’re setting a very high bar, and we realize that our recommendations may be beyond the financial reach and logistical capacity of many universities.