from Mike Rosenstein of NJ.com,

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has a dire warning for sports fans: there might not be any more games in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Fauci, the face of the Trump administration’s fight against the coronavirus, gave an interview to the New York Times. In it, he warned that testing has not expanded “enough for major sports competitions to resume.”

“Safety, for the players and for the fans, trumps everything,” he said. “If you can’t guarantee safety, then unfortunately you’re going to have to bite the bullet and say, ‘We may have to go without this sport for this season.’ ... If we let our desire to prematurely get back to normal, we can only get ourselves right back in the same hole we were in a few weeks ago. ... I would love to be able to have all sports back. But as a health official and a physician and a scientist, I have to say, right now, when you look at the country, we’re not ready for that yet.”

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