Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney was direct and to the point when he was asked following Thursday’s practice about contact tracing when it comes to player safety according to the NCAA’s COVID-19 guidelines.
Swinney was asked, for example, if a Wake Forest player was to test positive for COVID-19 on the Sunday after the Tigers’ game against the Demon Deacons on Saturday, Sept. 12, how it would be determined if a Clemson player had substantive enough contact with the player that tested positive in order to know if the Clemson player would need to be quarantined.
Swinney set the record straight, pointing out that the CDC defines high risk of COVID-19 transmission as any situation in which there has been greater than 15 minutes of close contact, defined as being less than six feet apart, with an infectious individual.