NFL chief medical officer Dr. Allen Sills announced Wednesday during a conference call that the COVID-19 positivity rate for the NFL this season was 0.08%.
Those numbers portend to few cases that could have been expected had NFL players just lived within their communities, , four days prior to Super Bowl LV in Tampa, Fla.
"We feel that our club facilities truly were some of the safest possible locations," .
Sills, who thanked the NFL Players Association and players for their diligence, announced that the league's pre-Super Bowl coronavirus stats -- which equated to the 0.08 positivity rate -- saw 262 COVID-19 cases among players and 463 among other personnel.
There is of course the Super Bowl remaining, but the league has remained diligent in maintaining COVID-19 protocols through Sunday's Kansas City Chiefs-Tampa Bay Buccaneers showdown.
