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#Josh Allen hated being NFL’s coronavirus ‘guinea pig’

#Josh Allen hated being NFL’s coronavirus ‘guinea pig’

August 25, 2020 | 12:53pm

Josh Allen wasn’t happy about being a “guinea pig” as one of 77 NFL people to receive false-positive COVID-19 results due to a contamination error over the weekend at a New Jersey laboratory.

The quarterback was among four Buffalo Bills players who were held out of practice Sunday to adhere to the league’s testing protocols before the tainted samples were retested and all came back negative.

“I got a call at six in the morning saying I tested positive and honestly, it’s nothing you want to hear and I’m sitting there like, ‘I feel fine, there’s nothing wrong,’” Allen said, according to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. “I come in, try to get in the building and I have to go through protocol. I went through the test that was right here that gives you results in 15 minutes and that came back negative. I’m super frustrated that I wasn’t here.”

Eleven NFL teams had players or staffers falsely test positive, with Allen and defensive linemen Vernon Butler, Quinton Jefferson and Harrison Phillips the four Bills players to be excluded from practicing Sunday.

Allen noted the importance of further false positives not emerging once the season begins on Sept. 10.

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“I’m happy that it happened now instead of come season time,” he said. “If this were to happen on Saturday or Sunday (during the season), who knows if I’d be playing. It sucks that I was kind of the guinea pig and whatnot, and part of that process, but I’m glad it wasn’t then. I’m glad it was now and we’re able to kind of move past it.”

Allen Sills, the NFL’s chief medical officer, stressed in a conference call Monday that testing issues — such as this one at the BioReference lab in New Jersey — are an “incredibly rare event.”

“We all want that (number of 77 false positives) to be zero,” Sills said, “but it’s a tiny fraction of the overall testing that has been done. And I think it speaks to the fact that, overall, our testing program has worked extremely well. To me, the most important thing is that we’ve gotten through four weeks (of training camp) thus far without any of our clubs having a major outbreak.

“It’s far too early to celebrate that, but I do think we should acknowledge that our clubs have done a terrific job — players, coaches, and staff — in following our protocols. Our protocols are working. I think we’ve shown that they’ve had the results that we want, and the events of this weekend shouldn’t change that view.”

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