MLB announces weekly COVID testing results

Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association jointly announced today the latest COVID-19 testing results conducted under MLB’s COVID-19 Health Monitoring & Testing Plan. The independent Utah laboratory has reported the following results during the past week:

Weekly Monitoring Testing:

• 1,854 tests conducted, with 0 positives.

Total Monitoring Testing To Date:

• 205,377 tests conducted, with 66 total positive tests (37 players and 29 staff members); a 0.03% positive rate. Twenty-five (25) different Clubs have had a Covered Individual test positive during Monitoring Testing.

In addition, MLB and the MLBPA announced today that 23 Clubs have reached the threshold of 85% or more of their Tier 1 Individuals being considered fully vaccinated, which allows for additional health and safety protocol modifications to apply to their Tier 1 Individuals. These protocol changes can also apply to Tier 2 Individuals, in each Club’s discretion, once 85% or more of the Club’s Tier 1 and Tier 2 Individuals are considered fully vaccinated. As of today, 86.5% of all Tier 1 and Tier 2 Individuals have received at least one vaccine dose, and 85.4% of all Tier 1 and Tier 2 Individuals are considered fully vaccinated.