Game Off - Part 2

It appears that the Berkeley football team, where - as a prior post noted* - there was an outbreak of COVID which resulted in a game cancellation, was not following city health requirements. The circumstances remain murky, however. From the San Francisco Chronicle:

...In an email to The Chronicle, Matthai Chakko, a spokesperson for Berkeley Public Health, said the 44 lab-confirmed 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. Cal head coach Justin Wilcox, speaking to reporters Wednesday on Zoom, pointed to his team’s 99% vaccination rate as evidence it “takes COVID very seriously.” Wilcox declined to directly respond to Berkeley Public Health’s accusations that members of the program did not follow public health measures.

“I don’t want to get into a back-and-forth with the city of Berkeley,” Wilcox said. “I will say, we have followed the guidance based on our vaccinated population. … We have health professionals who are in our building daily, at our practices and in our weight room.”...

Full story at https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/Cal-s-football-players-were-mostly-vaccinated-16610616.php.

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*http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2021/11/game-off.html.