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The Lead

How Pro Athletes Are Helping (And Hurting?) in the COVID-19 Fight

The Lead

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🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Steph Curry interviewed Dr. Anthony Fauci about COVID-19 live on Instagram last week. Joel Embiid has pledged half a million dollars to help laid off arena workers. Karl-Anthony Towns recently opened up about his mother being in a medically-induced coma because of the coronavirus. In short, pro athletes are doing a lot to help in the fight against the pandemic. But are they also benefitting from a double standard when it comes to access to tests and medical care? The Athletic's Sam Amick joins us to discuss.

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0:00.0

As the coronavirus continues to spread, pro athletes have been helping out in some pretty

0:10.9

big ways.

0:11.9

Well, six or star Joelle and B is stepping up to help people affected by coronavirus.

0:16.4

Reports say that a big man has donated half a million dollars to the COVID-19 relief

0:20.9

effort.

0:21.9

And last week, Warrior Star Steph Curry did something really unusual when he interviewed

0:26.6

public health expert Dr. Anthony Fauci live on Instagram.

0:36.1

Today the athletic Sam Amic joins us to talk about how pro athletes are pitching in in ways

0:41.4

we've never seen before and how it's helping.

0:44.3

It's a different sort of impact when it's coming from a voice like Steph.

0:49.7

But also, is there a double standard for some of the world's richest and most powerful

0:54.0

sport stars?

0:55.3

With all due respect, an entire MBA team should not get tested for COVID-19 while there

1:00.6

are critically ill patients waiting to be tested, test should not be for the wealthy

1:05.0

but for the same.

1:12.2

From Wondry and the athletic, I'm Anders Keltow.

1:14.7

And I'm Kabytha Davidson.

1:16.3

It's Monday, March 30th and this is the leave.

1:20.4

It felt like something great was happening.

1:24.5

There was just something about the emotion and that heart of the day.

1:31.5

The failures of the past don't matter because we've got this now.

1:34.6

This isn't a story where you interview the athlete in the home.

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