Joining us today, Dr. J. Bottacharya, this is our third session during the plague with Dr. Batacharya. Early on he told us what to expect in our second session with him he reported on a study that he had just conducted in Santa Clara County.

Back with us today by popular demand,

you are Jay, I have to say one of our more popular guests.

Yes, it beats me too.

Today Jay is going to be telling us about a third study and an especially interesting study that he has conducted with the Major League Baseball organization.

Dr. J. Badacharya and the MLB on Uncommon Knowledge with

Peter Robinson in this special plague time edition. Welcome everybody and Jay

thanks for making time once again. My pleasure Peter. Okay you conducted three studies. Let's start with the one that's just about to become public, your study of the Major League Baseball organization. How did this come about? How did you conduct you? Just give us a layman's overview of the study itself.

Sure, so it's similar in some sense to the other studies in that I'm looking for antibodies prevalence in a population.

It just so happens this population is a very unique population.

It's the set of employees who work from Major League Baseball

and the teams around the country, the Major League teams around the country.

The Major League teams around the country.

How did it come about?

The way that the other studies came about actually was through, in some sense, indirectly

through Major League Baseball.

The gentleman named Dan Eichner reached out to me and he offered me and my colleagues 15,000 of these test kits to check for antibodies.

He said, use them for population health, just for free.

I mean, they're a very generous man.

And he works very routinely with Major League Baseball

on all kinds of other sort of lab-related things.

And he introduced us to the Major League, the folks in New York and they basically very

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