The Tennessee Titans received some bad news on Sunday morning, as another staff member tested positive for COVID-19, the first new case the team has seen after two days of all negatives.
As of right now, the Week 5 game against the Buffalo Bills is on as scheduled for Tuesday, but there’s simply no telling where the league will go from here.
On Saturday, quarterback Ryan Tannehill talked about how the outbreak has impacted him on a daily basis, and he admitted that he has “lost some faith” in the COVID-19 testing system because of the mixed results it has produced, according to Teresa Walker of the Associated Press.
“It was a roller coaster for sure. Definitely the fact that we had guys with no symptoms testing positive and we had guys with full blown symptoms getting consecutive negative tests on multiple days was really eye-opening,” Tannehill said. “Just the fact of we really don’t know. So, we have to to treat everyone as if they have the virus. Unfortunately, really probably lost some faith in the testing system just through everything we’ve been through over the past week and a half, but we said that from the beginning that testing is not going to prevent the virus from being spread, it’s the way we handle ourselves with all the protocols and handle ourselves outside the building as well, so it’s been a roller coaster for sure.”
Based on how he describes it, Tannehill certainly has justification for not having total faith in the testing system, and it would appear that there are indeed some flaws in it — and that’s without mentioning some of the false negatives we’ve seen during the season.
