The Georgia State vs. Charlotte recreation ought to have been performed on Saturday.
The sport was postponed on Friday as a result of Georgia State stated it had “COVID constructive exams and phone tracing” inside its program. Nonetheless, the varsity stated Sunday that some form of mistake had been made within the studying of these take a look at outcomes.
“The constructive COVID exams that brought about Georgia State to postpone Saturday’s scheduled recreation at Charlotte turned out to be the results of errors in studying the take a look at outcomes,” Georgia State stated in a press launch.
Georgia State stated it examined its athletes and employees members 3 times final week on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. The primary two rounds of testing produced “zero constructive exams,” and the outcomes from Thursday’s exams “turned obtainable on Friday afternoon, simply earlier than the crew’s scheduled departure” to Charlotte. 4 out of the 135 exams got here again constructive with 17 different people (together with one coach), by contact tracing, needing to be quarantined.
“Out of an abundance of warning for the remainder of our crew and Charlotte, we couldn’t in good conscience put our crew on the bus and play a recreation,” Georgia State athletic director Charlie Cobb stated.
Nonetheless, it was later decided {that a} “human error” on Friday morning “brought about the error in take a look at outcomes.” Cobb stated the varsity re-tested the people who got here up constructive in a while Friday. By Friday evening, the lab the varsity makes use of knowledgeable the varsity that “none examined constructive,” Cobb stated.
“As a part of our protocols, we examined the people once more Friday afternoon and had been knowledgeable by our lab Friday evening that none examined constructive. Additionally they retested the swabs from Thursday and all examined damaging as properly. It was at this level that the lab director knowledgeable our medical employees {that a} human error Friday morning brought about the error in take a look at outcomes,” Cobb stated.
“The disappointing information is that we might have performed on Saturday. Extra importantly, the constructive information is we’re not coping with an outbreak presently. We admire the professionalism proven by [Charlotte Director of Athletics] Mike Hill and Coach [Will] Healy all through the previous 48 hours.”
Georgia State will return to apply on Monday to start making ready for its dwelling recreation in opposition to East Carolina subsequent Saturday. The Panthers have performed one recreation to this point in 2020, a 34-31 extra time loss to Louisiana on Sept. 19.
The constructive COVID-19 exams that brought about Georgia State to postpone Saturday’s scheduled recreation at Charlotte “turned out to be the results of errors in studying the take a look at outcomes,” the varsity stated. (Picture by David John Griffin/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Photographs)
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