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Coronavirus Pandemic Hits Too Close to Home for Ole Miss Lineman Eli Johnson

Eli Johnson is living under the belief that he is infected with coronavirus. He’s got good reasons for that assumption.

His mother has coronavirus.

And his father has coronavirus too.

“I visited the team doctor. The working theory is I most likely have it,” says Johnson, a 6' 1", 300-pound fifth-year senior at Ole Miss who started at center last season. “We’ve been ordered into isolation.”

Like much of America, Johnson is in quarantine, but unlike many in this country, he’s in quarantine with a corona patient. Ashely Johnson, his mother, is battling a mild fever.