A WNBA Player's Escape From Italy
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🗓️ 23 March 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Last week, Italy surpassed China as the country with the most deaths from COVID-19. Italy also happens to be a country where a number of WNBA players go in the offseason to supplement their income. The Athletic’s Alexis Mansanarez joins us to tell the story of an American player who was quarantined in Italy and attempted to get out of the country as it went into lockdown.
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| 0:00.0 | Last week Italy surpassed China as the country with the most deaths from COVID-19. |
| 0:11.5 | Italy, which has recorded fewer than half the number of infections as China, has now overtaken |
| 0:17.4 | China's death toll. 427 people died in Italy in the past 24 hours, taking Italy's total |
| 0:25.4 | to 3,000. |
| 0:26.4 | Lesson from Italy is that if you run out of ventilators, clinicians have to make incredibly |
| 0:31.6 | hard decisions. |
| 0:33.0 | Today, the Athletics Alexis Manzanaris joins us to tell the story of an American basketball |
| 0:37.9 | player who was quarantined in Italy and her attempt to get out of the country as it went |
| 0:44.0 | into lockdown. |
| 0:45.4 | She just couldn't leave. |
| 0:46.4 | She could be denounced, even see severe jail time if she potentially infected anybody. |
| 0:54.9 | From Wondry and the Athletic, I'm Anders Kelto. |
| 1:24.9 | This isn't a story where you interview the athlete in the home. |
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