The news from the University of Florida this week has been increasingly encouraging, but unsettlingly incomplete. Basketball player Keyontae Johnson is making gradual improvement after his terrifying mid-game collapse last Saturday at Florida State. Yet there is so much we don’t know, at a time when the unknown is particularly disconcerting.
This is the most delicate of balancing acts: The school is trying to protect the privacy of a player suffering a serious medical issue while it faces all the questions echoing throughout college basketball about a possible link between Johnson’s having COVID-19 during the summer and his collapse.