Highland Park ISD learned late Wednesday evening they had eleven varsity football players test positive for COVID19 “over the last couple weeks.”
Scrimmages vs. Trinity High School are canceled and the district is consulting with Dallas County Health and Human Services about next week’s opener against Austin Westlake.
Throughout the summer there have been multiple warning signs for organized team sports. Dallas has been a hot zone for COVID19 most of the summer until recently and reports show children can transmit COVID19 to their parents.
Highland Park ISD High School Football and COVID19
Just two weeks ago a team physician for the Penn State Nittany Lions stated that thirty to thirty-five percent of his COVID19 positive players showed symptoms of myocarditis – an inflammation of the heart muscle