Just hours ahead of their Week 13 primetime matchup against the Denver Broncos, the Kansas City Chiefs have avoided a potentially disastrous health scare.
According to FOX NFL Sunday’s Jay Glazer, the defending Super Bowl champions were alerted of seven positive COVID-19 tests in the early morning hours on Sunday, all seven of which later came back as false-positives after five hours of contact tracing and re-testing. The results were impacted by a lab processing error.
#Chiefs had a major scare when they got word at 3:30 am they had 7 positive COVID tests (including several coaches). For next 5 hours they had to do contact tracing, wake guys up to re-test and hours later found out they were ALL false positives. Crazy morning for them w a night
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Kickoff between the AFC West division rivals is still slated for 7:20 p.m. CT tonight at Arrowhead Stadium. The Chiefs have won the last 10 consecutive matchups, including the last three meetings by a combined score of 96-25.
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Chiefs Survive ‘Major’ COVID-19 Scare Hours Before Kickoff: Report