S1E19 / A Return to Sports, a Return to “Normal” Life? / Peter King, Rohan Nadkarni, Grant Wahl

EPIDEMIC with Dr. Celine Gounder

KFF Health News and Just Human Productions

Science, #Coronavirus, Health & Fitness, #Smallpox, Documentary, #Covid19, #Sarscov2, #Eradication, Life Sciences, Society & Culture, #Covid, Medicine

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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"I can't stress this enough. Rudy Gobert testing positive was the best thing that happened for the NBA. It arguably, in many ways, is the best thing that happened for this country. I don't think people were taking this seriously, Celine, until they found out an entity like the NBA could suspend its season because of the coronavirus.” -Rohan Nadkarni In this episode, our co-hosts Dr. Celine Gounder and Ron Klain speak to Rohan Nadkarni, Grant Wahl, and Peter King and look at the pandemic through the lens of basketball, soccer, and football to see how COVID is changing the way sports are played. They discuss what these games might look like for fans and players when they resume, how COVID is affecting the business of sports, and what the consequences are of trying to play sports in the middle of the pandemic. Grant Wahl is America's leading soccer journalist. He spent 24 years at Sports Illustrated, covering college basketball and soccer, and is the author of the New York Times bestseller, “ The Beckham Experiment,” as well as “Masters of Modern Soccer.” Rohan Nadkarni covers basketball for Sports Illustrated. Peter King covers football for NBC Sports, is the author of five books, and has been named National Sportswriter of the Year three times. This podcast was created by Just Human Productions. We're powered and distributed by Simplecast. We're supported, in part, by listeners like you. #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #COVID #coronavirus

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0:00.0	I'm Dr. Saline Gounder and I'm Ron Klein. And I'm Ron Klein. And this is epidemic.
0:19.0	Today is Tuesday, May 12th.
0:25.4	On March 9th, a basketball player for the Utah Jazz named Rudy Goebare gave a press conference. Not overthink, you know, play basketball, but just being able to attack with efficiency.
0:31.6	And he got the standard questions questions but one question was about
0:35.0	the rising concern about the coronavirus you know there's not much we can do right
0:39.8	now we're not gonna stop touching stop saying hi to each other or stop, you know,
0:46.2	giving each other high-fies, but it's just being aware of it and, you know,
0:50.8	try to have some hygiene, a little hygiene especially with the hands just be aware of it.
0:57.0	At the end of the press conference you can see Rudy stretching his seven foot frame as he gets up from a chair that looks too small for him.
1:07.0	He gets ready to leave and then he stops.
1:10.0	He bends over and he touches all the microphones on the table in front of him.
1:15.0	There's some laughter from the press and Rudy jogs out of the room.
1:21.0	Two nights later on March 11th, I was on the set at MS-NBC doing an interview with Rachel
1:28.8	Madow.
1:29.8	When news came that while Rudy and his team were set to play the Oklahoma City Thunder
1:35.1	with the crowd already in their seats a stunning development.
1:39.2	And for us, due to unforeseen circumstances, the game tonight has been postponed.
1:45.0	You are all safe and take your time and leaving the arena tonight and do so in an orderly fashion.
1:54.2	Thank you for coming out tonight.
1:56.1	The reason Rudy Gober had tested positive for COVID.
2:01.1	The game was postponed and then the NBA took an unprecedented step.
2:07.0	Breaking news here on CBS Sports HQ and it is Monster News. The NBA has suspended the season after Rudy Go Bear has
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