Opinion: Nashville is becoming COVID-19 capital of the American sports world

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'To those seeking a better understanding of COVID-19 outbreaks, Nashville’s sports community would be a fertile starting point,' writes Gentry Estes for usatodaysports.

Nashville SC wasn’t the first Major League Soccer team to halt games because of a COVID-19 outbreak. It was the second, following FC Dallas in having to back out of July’s welcome-back tournament. In all, Nashville SC has had

. Nine of them were associated with that tournament – and the outbreak is believed to have started in Nashville before the team traveled to the MLS' bubble in Orlando for the tournament.Is Nashville less safe than other major cities? The data doesn't back that up, and if anything, one could make a case that Nashville’s political leadership has leaned toward being restrictive as opposed to not enough.

Is it the teams themselves? Are these players or staff members secretly going out socially and partying in a city that is known for such things? Perhaps, but it’s not like Nashville is the only city with a fun downtown district. There is an NFL team in Las Vegas now, for gosh sakes. When Nashville SC’s outbreak hit in July, Ayre was peppered with a lot of the same questions the Titans are receiving now about how it happened.“We were doing our job,” Ayre said in July. “It's just this virus is indiscriminate. Whether people were wearing masks or not, people got infected. Who knows how that happened? We don't know yet where it started or if we ever will.”

 

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