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Cal, like the rest of the PAC-12 minus Stanford, does not do routine testing on vaccinated asymptomatic athletes. However, if an athlete is symptomatic, they get COVID tested. From what I've gathered online, they had multiple symptomatic positives, which triggered testing on the whole team, which led to the 20-25 positives last week (a lot of whom were actually symptomatic but didn't admit it until after their test). When you have that many positives, you need to keep testing as those more recent positives very well could have spread the virus to other teammates. The most recent round of testing today likely yielded more positives, eliminating a position group and thus postponing the game. I would be shocked if Cal is relying only on an antigen test, but even if so, the likelihood of getting that many false positives even using antigen testing in a symptomatic cohort is extremely low. This is a true outbreak. I don't understand why COB is taking so much heat for this. These are real positive cases!

For sure it was a real outbreak. From what is on the Bear Growls forum the test  they gave the whole team last week was an antigen test. Some players subsequently got PCR tests that were negative. How many, I have no idea, but it wasn't 20 or so. Supposedly the City wouldn't count that as the "real" test. While that is an issue, it is a side issue. There has been a lot of confusion at Kal about who required what and when. That is part of the problem. Unfortunately some of the athletes seem to think they had a choice in the matter when in reality their choices were get tested when asked to do so or don't play. That should have been made clear to all PAC-12 athletes from the start. Unfortunately it appears it was not.

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Cal, like the rest of the PAC-12 minus Stanford, does not do routine testing on vaccinated asymptomatic athletes. However, if an athlete is symptomatic, they get COVID tested. From what I've gathered online, they had multiple symptomatic positives, which triggered testing on the whole team, which led to the 20-25 positives last week (a lot of whom were actually symptomatic but didn't admit it until after their test). When you have that many positives, you need to keep testing as those more recent positives very well could have spread the virus to other teammates. The most recent round of testing today likely yielded more positives, eliminating a position group and thus postponing the game. I would be shocked if Cal is relying only on an antigen test, but even if so, the likelihood of getting that many false positives even using antigen testing in a symptomatic cohort is extremely low. This is a true outbreak. I don't understand why COB is taking so much heat for this. These are real positive cases!

For sure it was a real outbreak. From what is on the Bear Growls forum the test  they gave the whole team last week was an antigen test. Some players subsequently got PCR tests that were negative. How many, I have no idea, but it wasn't 20 or so. Supposedly the City wouldn't count that as the "real" test. While that is an issue, it is a side issue. There has been a lot of confusion at Kal about who required what and when. That is part of the problem. Unfortunately some of the athletes seem to think they had a choice in the matter when in reality their choices were get tested when asked to do so or don't play. That should have been made clear to all PAC-12 athletes from the start. Unfortunately it appears it was not.