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Colorado State football players and staff claim COVID-19 testing cover-up...
If this is true...No Words...
Multiple Colorado State football players and staff members have claimed that there is a COVID-19 testing cover-up going on within the football program. The Fort Collins Coloradoan reported Tuesday that players and staff members said that coaches told players not to report symptoms, threatened them with the loss of playing time and said that the school is altering contact tracing reports in order to keep positive testing numbers down.
"I believe there is a cover-up going on at CSU,'' said a current player who chose not to be named. "But they could only cover it up so long and now that we have so many cases across athletics, they can't cover it up anymore. It's not about the health and safety of the players but about just trying to make money off the players."
An unnamed staff member, who was one of 10 total players and staff members interviewed, also raised concerns about the state of the program.
"There are some red flags in the athletic department but the common denominator with this administration is to protect the coaches before the student-athletes and that makes them feel more like cattle than student-athletes," the staffer said.
Colorado State athletic director Joe Parker commented on the current COVID-19 testing program.
"This (athlete) population is the most tested population there is here but obviously some feel that is not a good enough job to make them feel comfortable regarding their health,'' he said. "If that's the feeling, we will need to amp it up.''
https://www.cbssports.com/college-footba...e-program/
(This post was last modified: 08-04-2020 05:52 PM by Maize.)
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RE: Colorado State football players and staff claim COVID-19 testing cover-up...
Quote:[Colorado State AD] Parker said previously that there were no positive COVID-19 tests for athletes as of July 20. That number spiked to 16, including 11 football players, as of Sunday.
Players and staff confirmed there were 27 players, about a quarter of the team, missing due to COVID-19 at the last practice July 29 before the university voluntarily paused practices.
Quote:Players and athletic staff said they believed the pause should have happened a week earlier but that coach Steve Addazio was adamant to get practices in.
https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/20...572625002/
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Colorado State football players and staff claim COVID-19 testing cover-up...
