[Farm93]

Here's more detailed update: 'Ongoing failure': Berkeley Dept. of Public Health pans Cal football program's 'major COVID outbreak' and here: Cal’s football team was 99% vaccinated before a big COVID-19 outbreak. What happened?

• 44 members of the team have tested positive
  
• Only 2 members of the team (out of 117) are unvaccinated. They both have COVID-19
  
• Testing began because there were players symptomatic and tested positive
  
• This is now classified as "major" outbreak by Cal-OSHA so California testing guidelines are to test twice-weekly
  
• "COVID-19 cases within the program 'emerged in an environment of ongoing failure to abide by public health measures.' He said people in the program did not get tested when sick, stay home when sick, or wear masks indoors."
  

COVID-19 is serious, and outbreaks are bad.   Yes, yes.   Not to trivialize that but...

When exactly will the players that are not available be allowed to return to practice? and games?
Given that they have a variant that appears likely to navigate around current vaccines to some degree I sure hope they all stay out until they have tested negative a number of times.   Both because that is the safe thing to do AND because it increases the odds that Stanford wins Big Game.

I know a number of athletes have come back from COVID-19 recently and said they felt like they were in a bit of a fog for a few weeks after they returned to sport.   
So again, not to trivialize the seriousness of COVID, but I wouldn't mind learning that Cal believes they lost Big Game 2021 because too many players were not quite back to 100% on November 20th.

With USC now giving UCBers a final home game in December, it would not shock me if UCB opts out of Big Game as both teams would still have one more home game to say thank you to seniors after November 20 2021.

[Farm93]

Here's more detailed update: 'Ongoing failure': Berkeley Dept. of Public Health pans Cal football program's 'major COVID outbreak' and here: Cal’s football team was 99% vaccinated before a big COVID-19 outbreak. What happened?

• 44 members of the team have tested positive
  
• Only 2 members of the team (out of 117) are unvaccinated. They both have COVID-19
  
• Testing began because there were players symptomatic and tested positive
  
• This is now classified as "major" outbreak by Cal-OSHA so California testing guidelines are to test twice-weekly
  
• "COVID-19 cases within the program 'emerged in an environment of ongoing failure to abide by public health measures.' He said people in the program did not get tested when sick, stay home when sick, or wear masks indoors."
  

COVID-19 is serious, and outbreaks are bad.   Yes, yes.   Not to trivialize that but...

When exactly will the players that are not available be allowed to return to practice? and games?
Given that they have a variant that appears likely to navigate around current vaccines to some degree I sure hope they all stay out until they have tested negative a number of times.   Both because that is the safe thing to do AND because it increases the odds that Stanford wins Big Game.

I know a number of athletes have come back from COVID-19 recently and said they felt like they were in a bit of a fog for a few weeks after they returned to sport.   
So again, not to trivialize the seriousness of COVID, but I wouldn't mind learning that Cal believes they lost Big Game 2021 because too many players were not quite back to 100% on November 20th.

With USC now giving UCBers a final home game in December, it would not shock me if UCB opts out of Big Game as both teams would still have one more home game to say thank you to seniors after November 20 2021.