Miami temperatures await possible COVID outbreak

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Give Miami Heat, very rarely does the term “pyrrhic victory” become something that applies to them and is applicable. Their dismantling of a Chicago Bulls team defeated by COVID-19 could have consequences later on.

As it tends to be in these times, one case can end up getting a team doomed and in the Heat’s case their dressing room complicated. That prospect is now more real than ever since Caleb Martin was placed under the NBA’s COVID health and safety protocols last Saturday night. 118-92 victory over Chicago on Saturday night.

Although the Heat are on a three-game winning streak, this could leave them in a pretty tight spot for the rest of December.

This could get even more ‘interesting’

In addition to the ongoing problems with the Heat, which could get much worse knowing on Sunday the Bulls had placed two players under health and safety regulations after Saturday’s game.

Now many in the Heat organization will be heading to Chicago to see how things go there as there are two additional players that will be dropped as their positive results are now in place. that half of the team is not available to play.

Ayo Dosunmu, Stanley Johnson, DeMar DeRozan, Matt Thomas, Derrick Jones Jr., LaVine, Brown Jr. and White are both in protocol, according to a report published by CBS Sports.

The question is: is the NBA being too cautious?

In the time of COVID, can being too cautious can cause businesses to lose efficiency? If one plays Devil’s Advocate, one can say that’s the case.

Current NBA policy requires players – regardless of their immunization status – to quarantine for 10 days or return to consecutive negative PCR tests 24 hours apart to return after testing positive. count with coronavirus.

Although the problem is not the positive test, but the fact that some players who test positive have also been vaccinated. When that is combined with a protocol that remains extremely cautious, teams will be hit hard for significant periods of time.

“We all have to figure this out now,” coach Erik Spoelstra said on Saturday. The Miami Herald. “Are players missing the game because they have symptoms? They have no symptoms? Has everyone received their injections and boosters? Why will they be held out longer than when they have the flu? I think there’s a contradiction there, and if you just go and do a lot of searching and experimenting and trying to figure things out, you’ll probably make it. ”

Heat coach Erik Spoelstra spoke about the issue after all those issues started to surface, and for his team, a series of positive circumstances can leave them debilitated during the road trip. seven days long, four games to come. One has to keep in mind the number of injuries they get and it can have some serious consequences for a group that is, from a medical point of view, responsible for the whole vaccine problem.

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