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Tennessee AD Phillip Fulmer tests positive for COVID-19

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Tennessee athletics director and former head football coach Phillip Fulmer has tested positive for COVID-19, he announced today via Twitter. Fulmer noted that he was asymptomatic and ‘feeling fine.’

“Yesterday, I learned that I had returned a positive test for COVID-19,” Fulmer said in a statement. “I immediately began following our isolation protocol. A second test confirmed the previous positive. I remain asymptomatic at this point. I am feeling fine and will continue to work remotely while adhering to CDC and local health department guidelines. I have not been deemed to be a close contact with any of our student-athletes or sport-specific staff members.