In case you haven’t been keeping up, COVID-19 is not over yet. In fact, it’s on its second revival tour already, now fronted by the surging Omicron variant, which will become more and more prominent on our shores, as it is becoming in the UK, over the next several weeks.
In the meantime, the Delta variant remains king, and it remains a problem for everybody. Not even the NFL can escape it, and they are working to address it with a new memo that went out to teams yesterday following a concerning record day of testing, during which 37 players tested positive for COVID-19, by far the largest single-day total the league has ever had since the pandemic began.