Lab Confirms That COVID-19 Tests Affecting Minnesota Vikings Players Were False Positives

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) —Over the weekend, the Vikings announced that 12 members of the organization — including eight players — presumptively tested positive for COVID-19. On Monday, however, the lab that processes the tests announced that they were false positives.
BioReference Laboratories, which does COVID-19 testing for the NFL, says that the false negatives were likely caused by contamination during test preparation in its New Jersey laboratory.All of the NFL members who presu