Dr. Celine Gounder on COVID-19, Amanda Vandervort on the new USL Super League

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Futbol with Grant Wahl, Dr. Celine Gounder, infectious disease expert, joins Grant (1:11) to discuss the Omicron variant of Covid-19 and how it's affecting the soccer world. Then, Amanda Vandervort, president of the USL Super League, the 2nd division US women's league beginning in 2023, joins (12:26) to discuss the forming of the league and its place in the women's game. To close, Chris Wittyngham comes on to break down the USMNT's friendly win over Bosnia and Herzegovina and the weekend in the Premier League.

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome to Fruitball with Grant Wall.
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0:41.4	Our first guest in this episode will be my wife, Dr. Celine Gounder, an infectious disease
0:46.8	specialist about the latest COVID Omicron Surge, segment two will be my interview with
0:53.2	Amanda Vanderwort, the president of the USL Super League, the new women's second division
0:58.3	starting in 2023.
1:00.6	Then in segment three, I'll bring in Chris Whittingham to talk US men's national team and
1:06.5	Tottenham Liverpool.
1:08.5	Let's go.
1:11.2	With the Omicron variant spreading in places around the world, our guest now is my wife.
1:17.6	Dr. Celine Gounder is an infectious disease specialist, an epidemiologist, and an NYU
1:23.3	professor who works at Bellevue Hospital.
1:26.3	She was a member of the president's transition COVID-19 advisory board, and she hosts two
1:31.8	podcasts, Epidemic and American Diagnosis.
1:36.0	Celine, thanks for coming back on the show.
1:37.9	Good to be here.
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