Florida’s Balancing Act: Protect Keyontae Johnson’s Privacy While Being Transparent on Risks

The news from the University of Florida this week has been increasingly encouraging, but unsettlingly incomplete. Basketball player Keyontae Johnson is making gradual improvement after his terrifying mid-game collapse last Saturday at Florida State. Yet there is so much we don’t know, at a time when the unknown is particularly disconcerting.

This is the most delicate of balancing acts: The school is trying to protect the privacy of a player suffering a serious medical issue while it faces all the questions echoing throughout college basketball about a possible link between Johnson’s having COVID-19 during the summer and his collapse. A sport that has seen scores of its players test positive…