Less than a week into the WNBA season, players continue to enter health and safety protocols after Mystics guard Natasha Cloud became the first player to test positive for COVID-19 this season on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, the Storm announced that two players, including star Breanna Stewart, entered health and safety protocols and were marked out for their game vs. the Mercury.
Like Cloud, Stewart blamed commercial flying as her reason for catching COVID-19 and criticized the WNBA’s travel policy preventing the use of private jets.
“Fly commercial they say…” Stewart wrote.
The WNBA hasn’t publicly updated their COVID-19 quarantine rules, but the CDC recommends people who test positive quarantine for five days, and then continue to wear a mask for five days after.