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Coronavirus & Sports: Former Brooklyn Nets Center Jason Collins Tests Positive For COVID-19

(CBSNewYork)- Former Brooklyn Nets center Jason Collins announced on his Twitter account Tuesday that he has tested positive for COVID-19 and says he believes he contracted the virus while on a trip to NYC earlier this month.

I tested positive for COVID19. I believe I got it while on a trip to NYC at the beginning of the month for the Brooklyn Nets Pride night game. I had my first symptoms on Wed Mar 11. Terrible headache. A few days later I had a fever and then the cough.

— Jason Collins (@jasoncollins98) March 24, 2020

Collins then went on to explain that he went to the ER this past Saturday with tightness in his chest and to get tested.