Multiple Penn State athletic programs have been put on pause after 48 student-athletes tested positive for COVID-19, the school revealed on Wednesday.
The positive results came out of 920 tests administered between Aug. 31 and Sept. 4, good for a 5% positivity rate, per Penn State. Only one student-athlete had tested positive for the coronavirus in the previous testing period between Aug. 24 and Aug. 28.
Penn State did not specify which programs were paused in its announcement, only saying that it was initiating contact tracing and did not believe the virus was transmitted at practice or workouts.