At least six New York Yankees players have tested positive for COVID-19 forcing the postponement of tonight's start to the second half of the season in which the Bronx Bombers would have hosted the Boston Red Sox.
Pitchers Jonathan Loaisgiga, Nestor Cortes, Jr. and Wandy Peralta have all tested positive while Aaron Judge, Kyle Higashoika and Gio Urshela are all expected to have positive tests and are currently in quarantine. All six players are fully vaccinated.
The Yankees were in a similar predicament two months ago although the majority of those affected were non-player personnel with the notable exception of Gleyber Torres. Most Yankees were vaccinated with J&J and I wondered if this outbreak would have happened had they been vaccinated with Pfizer or Moderna. One must also wonder if the Yankees have the highly contagious Delta variant which has seen daily cases double in the U.S. over the past several weeks. Still, we are nowhere near the 100,000 a day case and one's chances of being hospitalized are greatly reduced if one has been vaccinated. Unfortunately, not everyone is vaccinated and because of it we can't see the Red Sox play the Yankees.
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