{"id":862,"date":"2020-06-16T15:56:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T15:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=862"},"modified":"2020-06-16T15:56:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T15:56:17","slug":"dallas-cowboys-and-houston-texans-players-have-tested-positive-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=862","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys and Houston Texans Players Have Tested Positive for Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just when it was starting to look a little more optimistic that pro sports could return, there&#8217;s this . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ESPN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/29314127\/cowboys-texans-players-test-positive-covid-19-sources-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a> a &#8220;small number&#8221; of <strong>Dallas Cowboys<\/strong> and <strong>Houston Texans<\/strong> players have tested positive for the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of them is Cowboys running back <strong>Ezekiel Elliott<\/strong>.&nbsp; He wasn&#8217;t happy that the news leaked . . . and he Tweeted, quote, &#8220;HIPAA??&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, that&#8217;s the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which is supposed to safeguard the privacy of your medical information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But his agent confirmed the report, and said that Ezekiel is feeling fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s unclear who the other players are, or if their conditions are more serious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">None of the Cowboys players had been at the team&#8217;s facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Report: Both Texans and Cowboys have players who tested  positive for COVID-19 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Acppr3ovSR\">https:\/\/t.co\/Acppr3ovSR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProFootballTalk\/status\/1272561919434645504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when it was starting to look a little more optimistic that pro sports could return, there&#8217;s this . . . ESPN says a &#8220;small number&#8221; of Dallas Cowboys and Houston Texans players have tested positive for the coronavirus. One of them is Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott.&nbsp; He wasn&#8217;t happy that the news leaked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dont-miss-this"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Getty_11419862555.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}