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Berkeley has the same quarantine guidelines and criteria as everyone else. https://www.cityofberkeley.info/uploaded...antine.pdf

Contact tracing has led to many other game cancelations. Either the players were not distancing off the field or the city considered  practice to be a close contact.

Game next week is in jeopardy as cdc quarantine rules are a strict 14 days regardless of test results.

The player who tested positive is a lineman, multiple sources told ESPN, though it is unclear on which side of the ball. Either way, with his entire position group unavailable, Cal was unable to play.

"It's [a position group] that you can't play a game without," Wilcox said.

Wilcox made it clear the determination from Berkeley Public Health to place the entire position group in quarantine, plus others as close contacts, was a frustrating call because he believed the team took every step to prevent possible close contact designations.

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A spokesman for Berkeley Public Health told ESPN the negative test results do not allow someone to exit the quarantine protocol because the incubation period for COVID-19 is believed to be 14 days.

"The reason that the 14-day quarantine exists is that's the amount of time over which somebody could develop the disease," Matthai Chakko, a spokesman for Berkeley Public Health, told ESPN. "[A negative test] doesn't cure somebody's COVID-19 and it doesn't remove the chance that the virus may appear. That's what the quarantine order is based on."

https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...oronavirus

[82lsju]

Berkeley has the same quarantine guidelines and criteria as everyone else. https://www.cityofberkeley.info/uploaded...antine.pdf

Contact tracing has led to many other game cancelations. Either the players were not distancing off the field or the city considered  practice to be a close contact.

Game next week is in jeopardy as cdc quarantine rules are a strict 14 days regardless of test results.

The player who tested positive is a lineman, multiple sources told ESPN, though it is unclear on which side of the ball. Either way, with his entire position group unavailable, Cal was unable to play.

"It's [a position group] that you can't play a game without," Wilcox said.

Wilcox made it clear the determination from Berkeley Public Health to place the entire position group in quarantine, plus others as close contacts, was a frustrating call because he believed the team took every step to prevent possible close contact designations.

...
A spokesman for Berkeley Public Health told ESPN the negative test results do not allow someone to exit the quarantine protocol because the incubation period for COVID-19 is believed to be 14 days.

"The reason that the 14-day quarantine exists is that's the amount of time over which somebody could develop the disease," Matthai Chakko, a spokesman for Berkeley Public Health, told ESPN. "[A negative test] doesn't cure somebody's COVID-19 and it doesn't remove the chance that the virus may appear. That's what the quarantine order is based on."

https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...oronavirus