The team announced Bowness had been pulled from the game during the second intermission. Assistant John Stevens assumed head coaching duties for the remainder of the contest at PNC Arena in Raleigh, N.C.
Stars general manager Jim Nill said after the game that the team received its polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test results from Sunday morning during the intermission and that the team believes Bowness' test is a "false positive."
Bowness, 66, has received both vaccine doses for COVID-19. No other staff members have tested positive, Nill said, and Bowness has not experienced any symptoms of the virus.
"He was a very low grade, but it is still positive," Nill told reporters. "So out of safety concerns, he was pulled."