fortunate this week to be joined by an important guest, Dr.

Saline Gounder, an infectious disease specialist,

and an increasingly important voice in the coronavirus space.

She hosts a podcast called Epidemic with Ron

Klayne. Ron Kline was appointed the Ebola czar by President Obama in 2014,

so he is very, very well versed in infectious diseases.

Now that podcast and these two voices are important.

They're important listening these days because we're all trying to find out

everything we can about this increasingly important coronavirus. And I wanted to

speak to Saline Gounder this week about the dangers particularly that football faces from the coronavirus and how the NFL can best fight the virus.

I started our conversation by asking about how it is

transmitted and how fertile football is is a place for the coronavirus to spread.

Let's just dive in quickly to exactly why the coronavirus would be so dangerous and so significant in a contact

sport like football. Can you just start by explaining how the disease is

transmitted and why it might be so important when you consider the sport of

football? Sure this is where understanding how a disease is transmitted is really essential and different

infectious diseases, different viruses are transmitted in different ways.

So coronavirus is spread by droplets, which you know to the

average person might sound like it's being spread through the air and I mean I

guess droplets are in the air, but there's an important distinction. So when we talk, when we

cough, and we sneeze, we release these little droplets into the air. But

those don't stay in the air very long and don't travel very far. So

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