The Science of the COVID Bubble

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🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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How has COVID-19 impacted athletes? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice investigate with cardiovascular disease specialist Dr. Saurabh Rajpal, MD, and Head Team Physician Dr. James Borchers, MD, of The Ohio State University.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:15.0	This is Star Talk's sports edition.
0:19.0	And we're going to do an entire episode on COVID-19 and athletes.
0:25.0	We've done COVID-19, we do athletes all the time, we're putting them together.
0:30.0	Yeah, but we're not actually putting them together.
0:32.0	It's not like we're giving to athletes.
0:34.0	Oh, sorry!
0:35.0	Okay, Chuck.
0:37.0	Just so people don't get confused.
0:41.0	Those two voices chuck nice, chucked good to have you as always.
0:46.0	Always a pleasure.
0:47.0	Gary O'Reilly, former soccer pro, sports commentator.
0:50.0	And now we've got you for Star Talk.
0:52.0	Lucky us, huh?
0:54.0	Yeah, and everyone knows Chuck is my longtime co-host.
0:57.0	And I am Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
1:01.0	I'm director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium right here in New York City,
1:05.0	part of the American Museum of Natural History.
1:08.0	Now, none of us have expertise in COVID-19, especially not COVID-19 with regard to athletes.
1:15.0	We had to bring, we had to find somebody, find somebody who's got the medical chops to get us through this.
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