Pronouncing, "I love baseball," Dr. Anthony Fauci expressed optimism baseball can get back to playing games this summer with fans who are separated by social distancing and wearing "face coverings," the medical expert told Yes Network.
"It could be in the stadium with a significant difference of space, between people, and even then, wearing a facial covering," said Fauci, who adds "it's reasonable" to play a quarantine season.
"Where you get the group of players and you put them in a few cities, you make sure they're not infected, you test them, so they don't infect each other," Fauci said.
While Fauci sees fewer people showing up in stadiums, he says televised games will be in full swing.
"The revenues are not going to be the same as when you have a packed stadium," he added.
"... I don't think we can say with any confidence that in the middle of this summer, we can say, 'OK, July 4, let's start the season in a truncated season' exactly the way we would do it normally," Fauci told YES Network.
The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said teams might have to "limit the amount of people in a stadium and make sure you seat them in a way where they are really quite separated."
Fauci said it might be possible to have teams play in a few cities and take measures to keep them from getting infected. That idea had been floated by Major League Baseball.
Fauci said there is a healing nature of baseball that might be therapeutic for distressed Americans amid the global coronavirus pandemic.
"It could be as stringent as only television or it could be in the stadium with a significant difference of space, between people, and even then, wearing a facial covering," he concluded.
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