Arkansas has high COVID-19 vaccination rate

[ASFN Admin]

The Arkansas football program is among the best in the SEC in terms of COVID-19 vaccination rate, with 89 percent of the players and 92 percent of the football facility as a whole being vaccinated, head coach Sam Pittman said Thursday. SEC commissioner Greg Sankey announced Monday that six of the 14 teams in the conference had hit 80 percent, but the second-year coach revealed at SEC Media Days in Hoover, Ala., that the Razorbacks had also reached the magic number that comes with relaxed COVID-19 protocols. By exceeding the 85 percent mark, the SEC’s current policy allows for Arkansas to ditch wearing masks inside facilities and undergoing regular COVID-19 testing.

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