It’s A ‘Cluster’: Fully Vaccinated Saints Staff Test Covid Positive

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The NFL has gone to great lengths — some players argue extreme lengths — to make life difficult for the unvaccinated.

And in making its case for being vaccinated the league has said the positive Covid-19 incidence rate among unvaccinated players is seven times greater than vaccinated.

It’s accurate the league released numbers where the incidence rate among unvaccinated players was 2.2 percent while vaccinated players had a .3 percent incidence rate — both negligible numbers by recent greater population comparisons.

But saying there’s “seven times the incidence” in unvaccinated players testing positive sounds more ominous. It’s fits a narrative that vaccinated good; unvaccinated bad.

The NFL narrative also does not address that the time period for which these numbers were released — between Aug. 1 and Aug. 21 — the NFL tested unvaccinated players up to 14 times more often than vaccinated players.

Regardless of that omission the NFL narrative has a problem now.

Consider the New Orleans Saints.

Six coaches and a staff nutritionist tested positive for Covid-19 within the last 36 hours, OutKick.com has confirmed. All of them (or 100 percent per most calculators) were fully vaccinated.

And the point here is not to celebrate that vaccinated people also test positive or get sick. Never that.

The point is to question the league’s narrative that unvaccinated people are a major problem and the root cause of outbreaks.

Because the Saints coaching staff has an outbreak and none are unvaccinated.

The league, by the way, does not refer to outbreaks as such. Dr. Allen Sills, the NFL’s Chief Medical Officer, says an outbreak only occurs when “there is evidence of ongoing transmission within the club on an ongoing basis.”

Sills says the NFL more often has seen a “cluster” rather than an outbreak. A cluster, he said, is when there is “a small number of cases among individuals that share a connection or exposure.”

Well, when six coaches test positive and all of them are vaccinated, that is definitely a cluster for the team involved and the NFL’s narrative.

The Saints are now under what the NFL terms as elevated protocols. That means all players and staffers must be masked and undergo daily testing, regardless of vaccination status. Usually unvaccinated players test daily and vaccinated ones test every seven days.

Meetings with coaches will now be over Zoom and the team lunch room has been effectively shut down, with meals pre-packaged and taken to go.

The team is still in the Dallas-Forth Worth to which it relocated because of Hurricane Ida. The Saints are scheduled to play at the Carolina Panthers on Sunday.

One more thing and it bears repeating: Vaccinated people get Covid. Everyone understands that and even the NFL admits that.

“We will see positive tests in vaccinated people,” Dr. Alan Sills said on a conference call two weeks ago. “That is a phenomenon of the Delta variant that it can produce a positive test in vaccinated people. I don’t consider that a failure simply because those vaccinated people who become infected or have a positive test typically have a very mild upper respiratory illness.

“That illness has, again, milder symptoms than what we would have seen in previous iterations of this disease.”

Twitter: @ArmandoSalguero

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Written by Armando Salguero

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  2. It’s not a phenomenon. It’s called a leaky vaccine that created the variants. That’s just science…..

    Oh yeah, the PCR tests they are using are still unreliable. They have no idea if the have a cold, the flu, or Covid. And they sure as hell don’t know if it’s the Delta variant. They actually have to DNA sequencing to determine that. No lab doing Covid tests are doing that.

    It’s all a bunch of bullshit theater. Period.

  3. There is exactly zero statistically relevant evidence that the “vaccine” has any impact whatsoever on the severity of disease. The evidence for this was based on mismatched age and health cohorts (intentionally). If you match age and health cohorts the outcomes (which yes, are mild for almost everyone) are identical.

    The “vaccine” is a gene therapy (steroid) shot that boosts immune response (after initially tanking it when it strips cell layers to produce the steroid) for a limited window and then increases exposure (per the only reliable data we have, from Israel and the UK) once the steroid effects have waned. AKA they work exactly like all steroids do… benefit during cycle (with a high risk profile) and severe adverse response once off cycle. And just like steroids if we keep dosing them forever, the costs will be HUGE to overall health.

    Forcing young healthy people to be vaccinated against a mild respiratory disease is insanity. Read the Denmark COVID-19 health outcome data. There were less COVID-19 deaths across all males in Denmark under 70 years of age than there were in males over 90. Sadly, the madness shows no signs of ending…

    • It says a lot when the people Biden put in charge at the FDA of looking at the effectiveness of the vaccine quit in protest of his grand plan to implement vaccine boosters. Or when hospitals are short staffed because doctors and nurses refuse to take the vaccine. But what do they know, right? How dare they not follow the SCieNcE of Biden and his merry band of progressives

  5. Sills says the NFL more often has seen a “cluster” rather than an outbreak. A cluster, he said, is when there is “a small number of cases among individuals that share a connection or exposure.”…he was close at least, he got the cluster part of clusterfuck correct. Laughable, when all else fails fall back on the vaccinated experiences milder symptoms. Put something out there that can be proven either to be true or false.

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