2 Doctors on Covid, Delta & Sports: Celine Gounder and Robby Sikka

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

With the Delta variant running rampant and the Covid pandemic continuing, Grant speaks about the latest news in the sports context (including soccer) with two accomplished doctors in the field. Dr. Celine Gounder, Grant's wife, is an infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital, the host of the Epidemic Podcast and was a member of the Biden-Harris Transition Covid Advisory Board. Dr. Robby Sikka has worked with a variety of sports leagues and different entertainment industry resources to manage Covid and has been involved since the start of the pandemic with the Covid Sports and Society Work Group, a public-private partnership that works with the CDC, the White House and all the major professional sports leagues. Until recently he was the VP of basketball operations and player wellness with the Minnesota Timberwolves, and he is presently working with NFL and NBA teams on Covid and all things sports analytics. Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqIhXWUw0H4 Get full access to Fútbol with Grant Wahl at grantwahl.substack.com/subscribe

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome to Food Ball with Grant Wall.
0:09.7	Thanks so much for joining me.
0:11.4	Today's interview guests are my wife, Dr. Celine Gounder and Dr. Robbie Sica, to talk
0:18.0	about the latest on COVID in sports, including the Delta variant and Long COVID.
0:22.8	We've had some great guests lately, including Luis Garcia, Danny Higginbatham, and Mark
0:28.3	McKenzie among others, so check those out.
0:32.2	Now here's my interview with the two doctors.
0:36.7	Our guests now are Dr. Celine Gounder and Dr. Robbie Sica.
0:41.7	Dr. Gounder is an infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist at the New York University
0:46.9	Grossman School of Medicine and Bellyview Hospital.
0:50.3	She's also the host of the Epidemic Podcast, was a member of the Biden Harris Transition
0:55.3	COVID Advisory Board.
0:57.2	He's also my wife, as you probably know.
0:59.8	Dr. Sica is a physician who's worked with a variety of sports leagues and different entertainment
1:04.9	industry resources to manage COVID and has been involved since the start of the pandemic
1:10.2	with the COVID Sports and Society work group, a public private partnership, which works
1:15.8	with the CDC, the White House, and all the pro sports leagues.
1:20.2	Until recently, he was the vice president of basketball operations and player wellness
1:24.0	with the Minnesota Timber Wolves, and he's presently working with the NFL and NBA teams
1:29.2	on COVID and all the things sports analytics.
1:32.9	Thanks so much for coming on, both of you.
1:34.4	It's great to be here.
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