MLS: 3 questions regarding Orlando City resumption plan

1. What happens if a player contacts COVID-19?

The biggest question facing the proposal is what happens if and when a player or coach contacts the coronavirus. Again per The Athletic’s report, at present, ideas are thin on the ground:

"“None of the sources were sure exactly how the league would handle a member of the MLS party testing positive for COVID-19 while in Orlando, though there is presumably a contingency in place <…> The sources felt that a two-week quarantine for an entire team in the middle of that competition would be difficult, if not impossible, to overcome.”"

The major issue is that COVID-19 cannot be considered like a normal illness. Where one player might miss matches with a hamstring strain, COVID-19 means the whole team cannot play before they have all either quarantined for 14 days or have been tested. Either way, the chance that they can then fulfil the schedule, especially one that has been squeezed into a few-week-long tournament in which games will be played every day, is extremely slim.

MLS, then, must come up with a contingency plan. Because the likelihood is is that at least one player will contact COVID-19. And what happens then? At present, no one has an answer.