Hello and welcome to the back-to-back podcast on the athletic podcast network.

This is Dave DeFour, and I'm joined by Seth Partnow, as usual.

We brought back Dr. Batazy and Benny to sort of give us an update.

Three weeks later, obviously the world is still dealing with COVID-19 and we just kind of wanted to touch base and take a step back

and see where we're at first of all dr. Benny and Dr. Potazzi are you guys doing well yes I'm doing well

yes I'm I'm healthy and well. Everybody in the household is

healthy and well. Everybody in my family, thank God, knock on wood, is healthy and well. So we're

doing fine. All right. Dr. Benny, you are the epidemiologist. What should we be doing right now

in this process? Yeah. So just to take a step back and kind of talk

about where we are, cases are increasing in the U.S. It's really hard to know whether or how much of

it is newly developing cases, of which there are certainly some and how much of it is we are

discovering more cases because we've

ramped up our testing, which is certainly another piece of it.

Lacking behind that somewhat because if you think about the process of getting COVID-19,

if the worst ends up happening, the process is you get sick, you test positive, you go to the hospital, and you either recover or you

unfortunately die. So what we're seeing is sharp increases in cases, sharp increases in

hospitalizations a little bit behind that, sharp increases in deaths, particularly in New York

and the surrounding areas. So we're on the upswing.

I do not think that we are at the peak of this yet. So we should not be expecting, we should

expect to see things continue to rise for probably the next several weeks before we crest and

start to come back down on the other side of

the wave, though that's really hard to know, again, particularly due to our lack of testing.

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