(WSIL) -- The NCAA has issued updated guidance on testing and tracing protocols for fall sports.
"Current vaccination rates remain inadequate to provide community-level immunity," NCAA Chief Medical Officer Brian Hainline said. "It is essential that member schools work in concert with federal, state and local public health officials to develop COVID-19 prevention and management strategies that make sense for them."
°Õ³ó±ðÌý includes testing, quarantine, isolation, and other athletic and nonathletic activity considerations for unvaccinated and fully vaccinated Tier 1 individuals.
Tier 1 individuals are those with the highest exposure (for example, student-athletes, coaches, athletic trainers, physical therapists, medical staff, equipment staff and officials).
According to the guidelines, players and staff members who are fully vaccinated or documented infection in the past 90 days will require no testing unless they become symptomatic. Unvaccinated players and staff will be tested three times a week.
Those not fully vaccinated must test negative twice on non-consecutive days before they can begin training, also requiring a negative test ahead of each game to participate as well.
Everybody will be required to wear masks indoors/while traveling including those who are fully vaccinated. Fully vaccinated individuals will also not have to quarantine after a close contact.Â
If a vaccinated individual tests positive for COVID-19, then they will isolate for 10 days, with a full 24 hours without symptoms needing to pass before they can return.
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