Cory Highfield: Second player placed on COVID-19 protocol list
Cory Highfield (Photo: Micheline V/Rochester Americans)
The National Lacrosse League confirmed via the league’s official transaction page that the Rochester Knighthawks have placed Cory Highfield on the COVID-19 protocol list.
Highfield becomes the second player in as many days to be moved to the list.
On Friday, New York Riptide rookie, Jeff Teat, was also placed on the COVID-19 protocol list - the first in the NLL to appear there just a week into the 2021/22 campaign.
A rookie with Rochester last season, Highfield was drafted in the second round of the 2019 NLL Draft by the Knighthawks, appearing in all twelve of the team’s games during the shortened 2019/20 season.
Highfield and Teat played in the same game together in Week 1, a 13-12 OT victory for the Knighthawks.
As reported in yesterday’s The Lax Mag update on Teat, the criteria for how long a player is required to remain on the COVID-19 protocol list is included in the “Management of Symptomatic (and/or COVID-19-Positive) Persons” section of the league’s COVID-19 policy & protocol document, and more specifically under the “Ending of Isolation” subsection. The league document, which can be found here, states:
Players or Club personnel whose test has been confirmed positive shall remain in isolation until all of the following conditions have been satisfied:
If at least 10 days have passed since symptoms first appeared, and at least 24 hours have passed since last fever without the use of fever-reducing medications, and symptoms (e.g., cough, shortness of breath) have improved (with the exception of continued loss of taste or smell so long as other symptoms have improved).
In addition, the Club Physician and any other treating physician providing care to the individual, must conclude that the individual no longer presents a risk of infection to others, and that it is medically appropriate (given individual and local circumstances) to terminate the requirement for isolation.
The termination of the isolation requirement is consistent with applicable local public health regulations or other requirements.
Rochester hosts the Buffalo Bandits tonight (7pm ET), while the Riptide play twice during Week 2, last night dropping a 14-12 decision against the Philadelphia Wings, then hosting the Georgia Swarm on Sunday afternoon (3pm ET).