[murky]

It's a mess. According to Stewart Mandel, this appears to be a situation where Cal is the only team that has mandatory tests for asymtomatic vaccinated players due to Berkeley requirements, and they've gotten some positive tests. This would probably be happening everywhere if every team had that requirement. Chase Garbers has a tweet blaming University Health Services for going back on previous advice that tests were only "highly recommended."  Have to think it's pretty unfair to the players.

I don't think testing the players is "unfair". I think they should be glad they got tested. If you are asymptomatic and have COVID you don't want to get on a plane with the rest of the team and spread it further, let alone to the public. However, as I understand it the testing at Kal was an antigen test, not a PCR test. False positives are quite possible with antigen tests. The "rumor" is that several Kal players who tested positive subsequently had negative PCR tests, but the City of Berkeley still insisted on a minimum 10 day quarantine. I don't know for sure this is the case. If indeed the test used originally was an antigen test I would expect that UCB should have immediately done a PCR test for anybody who wanted it, and if it were negative the PCR result would be accepted as the definitive result by CoB.

As usual your post makes a lot of sense.

[murky]

It's a mess. According to Stewart Mandel, this appears to be a situation where Cal is the only team that has mandatory tests for asymtomatic vaccinated players due to Berkeley requirements, and they've gotten some positive tests. This would probably be happening everywhere if every team had that requirement. Chase Garbers has a tweet blaming University Health Services for going back on previous advice that tests were only "highly recommended."  Have to think it's pretty unfair to the players.

I don't think testing the players is "unfair". I think they should be glad they got tested. If you are asymptomatic and have COVID you don't want to get on a plane with the rest of the team and spread it further, let alone to the public. However, as I understand it the testing at Kal was an antigen test, not a PCR test. False positives are quite possible with antigen tests. The "rumor" is that several Kal players who tested positive subsequently had negative PCR tests, but the City of Berkeley still insisted on a minimum 10 day quarantine. I don't know for sure this is the case. If indeed the test used originally was an antigen test I would expect that UCB should have immediately done a PCR test for anybody who wanted it, and if it were negative the PCR result would be accepted as the definitive result by CoB.

As usual your post makes a lot of sense.