Hello and

welcome to the back-to-back podcast on the athletic podcast

network. This is Dave Defour and I'm joined by Seth Part

now as usual. We brought back Drs Batazzi 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 space and take a step back and

and see where we're at first of all Dr Benny Dr. Benny and Dr. Potasi, are you guys doing well?

Yes, 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 US.

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

lagging 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.

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