Medical Labs are currently working at maximum capacity and they are rushing to expand their current facilities.
Originally Posted by: Smokey
Exactly, the experts are doing this, meaning if there are good FAs they're locking them up, making it harder for an outside organization to come in and set up a new shop, from the ground up.
Plus sports teams don't have time to set up, they need something ready now.
You're argument is making a great case on why they should just pay an expert company to put them as a priority to do it.
Additionally, placing sports teams ahead of everyone else could lead to even more expensive legal penalties.
Sports teams are businesses first and are not restricted to how they expand their personnel.
Originally Posted by: Smokey
So first you're saying business putting themselves first "could lead to even more expensive legal penalties."
Then you say business putting themselves first "are not restricted to how they expand their personnel."
Which is it? You're contradicting yourself...
The fact is that the medical field has the right to make certain cases priority, an they often do, either because the medical circumstances is more important, or because in the case of the sports world, they'll pay more for premium services.
Most already have their own M.D.s, specialist, trainers, and others either on salary or on retainer that can be summoned as needed.
Originally Posted by: Smokey
Yes, but those are for the players to personally interact with.
They aren't running the drug test, which I believe are being done by a 3rd party vendor, just like the coronavirus test most likely will be.
Renting buildings and setting up labs provides teams with a safe, reliable, and legal risk free place where testing can be preformed exclusively for a team/teams in a city.
Waiting for a commercial lab to run test can and likely would take too much time identify personnel infected with Covid-19. Time is the critical factor in protecting a team from this pandemic. I don't believe that any amount of precautions will prevent Covid-19 from shutting down most sports until a medical solution is verified and widely available.
Originally Posted by: Smokey
Again you're contradicting yourself, saying it'll take too much time for commercial labs to run test, but suggesting they set up their own operation.
Their own operation will probably take at minimum 18 months to fully and properly set up... the vaccine might be out before then.
Also absolutely no sports league has enough test to set up and support the cost of a year round lab.
There is absolutely no difference in a commercial lab from doing it then the NFL doing themselves, other than the NFL has absolutely no experience in this field, would cost a ton of time and money to set up.
Yes they could face a legal battle at some point, but they could absolutely face a legal battle from players if they set up their own in a hurry and screw up.
As long as the commercial labs are willing to make them a priority (and most medical fields, especially business medical testing will if you give them enough cash), then there is no reason not to let the 3rd party experts handle thing instead of attempting a DYI project that's found to have a hiccup or two somewhere.