The Omicron variant will demand a more nimble approach to the coronavirus, for professional sports leagues and everyone else. williamfleitch writes
Pushing forward. Photo: Steph Chambers/Getty Images You can make an argument that of all American institutions, professional sports have worried about the pandemic the least but handled it the best. From the beginning, it was obvious sports were going to return as soon as they possibly, legally could. Remember when Georgia governor Brian Kemp opened up tattoo parlors and bowling alleys in April 2020? That hotly debated act led directly to the NBA bubble.
After a tumultuous week of frantically rescheduled games, the NFL, NBA, and NHL announced significant changes to their testing protocols. These new rules — especially the NFL’s — are likely a preview of the way most of society will come to think about the pandemic moving forward. Last season, the NFL had been testing all of its players all the time regardless of vaccination status. From here on out, it will test fully vaccinated players only if they’re showing symptoms.
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