Hello and welcome to NERder She Wrote Back to Back to Back Podcast on the Athletic Podcast Network.

I'm your host, Dave DeFour, joined as always by Seth Part Now.

Today, we actually have special guests.

We wanted to discuss the coronavirus, the impact, not just on the

NBA, but the world. Through the American Association for the Advancement of Science and their

director, Elizabeth Crocker, I was able to get two special guests. Dr. Maria Elena Botazi is the

co-director of the Texas Children's Center for Vaccine Development at Baylor College of Medicine,

and Dr. Zachary Benny is a sports injury epidemiologist at Emory University. I'd like to thank you

guys for joining the show and helping us navigate these uncharted waters. Thank you very much.

It's a pleasure to join you all. Absolutely, Dave and Seth. We can't thank you enough for having us on.

I want to start with, I guess, the easiest thing to discuss. How does this virus work?

So maybe I can take that question. So viruses, many viruses, usually are very transmittable. And the way that it's done when they're transmitted

from a human to a human is usually through droplets.

For instance, when we sneeze,

and certainly when we're also sneezing

and then touching surfaces, then other people

can get also contaminated by touching those surfaces

that have, you know, the droplets that basically were spread during, you know, are sneezing

or coughing.

How do we protect ourselves and other people from transmitting this virus?

Well, you know, similarly to how we try to protect ourselves from getting the common cold or

certainly the influenza, you know, I think the best practices are, as we've been hearing in the

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