By Terry Paulding
CBS News reports that 44 Cal football players “tested positive” for COVID on Wednesday, after undergoing mandatory testing.  Their weekend game is postponed.  They were contact-traced after “someone” was infected.  The team is “99.5%” vaccinated, per Cal athletic director Jim Knowlton.
Damage control was immediate.  In the same news report, Dr. Monica Gandhi, UCSF infectious disease expert, said the vaccinated players never should have been tested and that “guidelines” hadn’t been updated.  Oops!  Gandhi explained why she was not worried:
“I have zero panic whatsoever as a public health person, as an infectious disease doctor, of 44 healthy people who are fully vaccinated who may have a little virus in their nose on a highly sensitive test,” Gandhi told KPIX 5 Wednesday. “It is not an outbreak, it does not mean they got sick, and it does not mean the vaccines don’t work. It means that our public health strategy in this case was off and they were doing mass testing of people who didn’t need it.”
