MONDAY: A seventh team has crossed the 85% barrier, Pelissero adds (on Twitter). As for the players who have received at least one vaccine dose, that number has now surpassed 70%.
FRIDAY: With training camps less than three weeks away, an interesting date is approaching regarding vaccinations. Any player who has not received two vaccine doses, or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, by Monday will not be considered fully vaccinated by camp. But the number of players who have taken that step continues to increase.
Six teams have hit the 85% vaccination threshold, Tom Pelissero of NFL.com tweets. This includes the Broncos, who have seen nearly 95% of their 90-man roster receive one or two vaccine doses, Mike Klis of 9News tweets.
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As a whole, the NFL’s player base has surpassed the 69% vaccination threshold, Pelissero adds. This is up from 65% two weeks ago. Geared around players’ vaccination decisions, this season’s COVID-19 protocols create two sets of rules. Teams who reach high vaccination levels will have advantages.
Players who choose not to be vaccinated — a right the NFLPA collectively bargained, though teams’ Tier 1 and Tier 2 staffers are required to do so — must take virus tests daily once camp starts and will face the prospect of missing multiple games if they test positive. Nearly all Tier 1 and Tier 2 personnel are vaccinated, Pelissero tweets. Coaches fall under this umbrella; a coach must be fully vaccinated to be allowed to work directly with players.
The league’s high-risk close contact policy still applies to unvaccinated players, who, like last season, would need to isolate for five days if they are classified as such. Teams with lower vaccination rates will also need to create social distancing setups for their unvaccinated sects of players; this will pertain to meetings and affect weight-room policies.
The Dolphins, Saints and Steelers joined the Broncos in being around the 85% threshold in late June, and the Jaguars and Panthers had progressed to near that rate at that point. Twenty-nine teams begin training camp July 27.
Lame
Nobody is forcing me to take shots of medicine that hasn’t even been properly tested longterm!!!
We’re all gonna grow flippers
Ignorant
You’re right, nobody is, so what’s your beef?
This would be bullshit.
JDC, you are a real patriot. Even though over ninety nine percent of the deaths from COVID-19 in the last month are by those who weren’t vaccinated, you are going to prove all the experts wrong by not getting vaccinated. Of course, if you get sick with Covid you won’t be able to complain about it, that’s if you survive.
My question is what is wrong with being a responsible citizen and doing the simplest thing to help you and the people you come in contact with to stay healthy? Best of luck playing “Russian Roulette”.
Now tell everyone how many of those alleged deaths “from” the “virus” were actually those who may have died “with” the virus ….after using a testing method that is an abject joke.
People and their conspiracies. It’s comical.
The comeback for that would be the quote “Just because your paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you” – Joseph Heller/Catch 22.
The claim that vaccine testing was a joke is itself ridiculous, easily disproved by any curious, marginally intelligent human with a few minutes on their hands. Go ahead and Google “Have the vaccines been properly tested” and you’ll find numerous reliable sources explaining the process.
Spoiler alert: the study of and vaccine development in relation to coronaviruses has been a thing for decades. In no way shape or form were scientists “starting from scratch” when COVID hit.
Once candidate vaccines were developed, careful testing was employed, but on an expedited basis because of the global emergency. To the uninformed, that sounds suspicious. But again, all of your questions can be answered if you only spend some time away from ridiculous conspiracy sites and look at some reliable sources. Nobody can do that for you.
FDA never approved for testing on “population”
The FDA gave emergency authorization for the Covid vaccines. There was extensive testing on animals and humans to earn that approval. This (and much more) is widely available information to anyone who cares to know.
And you think that segregation with be the new norm? As a black man we had had both shots after being told I had the anti-bodies, I’m seeing 35% of the population being told they can’t go places and have to sit in the back of the bus… If you’re a doctor you should know that HIPA is being violated by the CDC and world government. Very sad for “Darwinists” lol
Hey as a black man you’re supposed to shut up and get on the train
Nope. Wrong. It’s not a HIPPA violation to require a vaccinated person to wear a mask or to otherwise treat those who can provide vaccination proof differently.
link to hipaajournal.com
Facts matter.
HIPPA is for your doctor or the people that have your medical records to not give out your personal health information. A business can ask if you have been vaccinated. So can the government. Your doctor can’t give out your personal information. You can give it out to anyone. And anyone can ask you for it.
A store or private business can ask if they want. If it is a non-medical related business.
If that store calls your doctors office or pharmacy and asks them to provide that info then the HIPAA violation is now on that medical professional at the office or pharmacy if they disclose that info, NOT the store you are shopping at.
Don’t bring that kind of logic here. It can’t get past all the tin foil hats 90% of the comment section wear.
Wow google says the testing is safe and the vaccine is safe they also say the 2020 election was the safest and most secure election we have ever had
Good thing you don’t play in the NFL because THAT is the point of this story.
It doesn’t really matter either way…
Delta is soon going to “vaccinate” the unvaccinated. The ones who live, at least.
Covid has shifted from pandemic to Darwinism in the US.
Proceed accordingly.
It’s even worse than that. Delta is just one variant. The longer the virus is allowed to rumble through the population, the greater the chance a truly horrible breakthrough variant that renders the current vaccines useless will develop. Those who refuse to vaccinate are not just hurting themselves, though they are certainly doing that.
You are an idiot!
This person is effectively rooting for the asteroid.
Retarded
One thing is certain most of Americans are really really really dumb we are no longer a great nation we are a nation of silly people arguing silly things, the bigger pandemic in this country is stupid people thinking they are smart because they can vomit their uneducated nonsense through a keyboard. We used to read book now we read Twitter and think we are getting educated. Corporate America killed the middle class and social media is killing intelligence we are doomed if we don’t pull our heads out of our collective asses
It’s not a vaccine! It was synthesized!!!
This dude thinks he just said something meaningful and coherent. Imagine that.
No question that Darwinism will rule. No question more unvaccinated will die of COVID than those vaccinated. So the gene that influenced the decision to vaccinate will predominate. Good or bad dunno.
It’s good. Get the people stupid enough to think this is one big conspiracy the hell out of the gene pool.
It was wise for the Saints to do it. New Orleans is a hard-hit area, with a crazy mayor…
People that blindly trust the government, the media, and big pharma call everyone who does not a “conspiracy theorist”.
…because they get their info from Russian bots on Twitter and mentally ill Karens on Facebook. Yes.
“Everyone person in a position of authority on planet Earth is working in perfect sinister synchronicity and is out to get me and my only hope is this anonymous blogger who asks me for donations to fight the thing only they will tell me about!!!”
Good luck with that.
The polarization on both sides is so ridiculous. Fact of the matter is that a very specific subset of people are susceptible to death from covid. Medical decisions should always be a personal choice. Telling someone they MUST get it is no better than telling someone they BETTER NOT get it. If you have medical issues or just feel safer getting it, do it. If you are more scared of potential side effects of the vaccine (which there certainly are plenty being found every day) than from getting covid, then don’t get it. If you are vaccinated then you are safe either way. So back off those who chose not to get it. Stop trying to control everyone else.
A “very specific subset” of people are suspect I left
When the brand new polio vaccine came out that was rushed to the population, 95 percent of the country chose to be vaccinated. Different times. I guess people really did have more common sense then. They chose to believe medical personnel instead of next door neighbors. Then again there wasn’t the cesspool of social media.
Comparing covid to polio shows you have little common sense OR understanding of science. I bet you drive alone in your car with a mask on..and please continue doing it as a warning to normal people.
Truly a bunch of idjets amongst us. Millions go to restaurants and eat food prepared by who knows whom with ingredients stated to be whatever but they balk at doing something that just might be in the best interest of everyone. The same people take medications and use other over the counter products because they believe they are worth using. Hundreds of thousands have died from Covid-19, the factual number may be debated but isn’t 1 person, 1 too many. If it were your Mother, Father, daughter, son or significant other, isn’t just 1, 1 too many?
What a fun comment section! Thanks for keeping it relevant to football, everyone.
As long as they keep personal choice alive, that’s all that should matter.
I hope those unfortunate enough to pass are Fox News, anti vaccine, and Big Lie believers. The sooner we decrease that population the higher the collective IQ will become.