This raises issues for professional leagues who may want to use widespread testing among their teams to clear athletes to play. Team commissioners and owners said they don't want to secure tests for players in the current environment,"We would have to ensure that testing is widely available and front-line health care workers have access before we begin talking about regular testing in the context of professional sports," NBA spokesman Mike Bass told AP.
And even if teams were able to obtain the number of necessary tests without taking them away from Americans who needed them, players and staff would steal need to aggressively isolate themselves from society, Fauci said."You've got to be really creative. That's going to be more difficult and more problematic," he told the New York Times.
If teams are going to play contact sports without an audience, according to Fauci, it would be important "to test all the players and make sure they're negative and keep them in a place where they don't have contact with anybody on the outside who you don't know whether they're positive or negative."
He added: "In other words, we said that for baseball, get the players in Major League Baseball, get a couple of cities and a couple of hotels, get them tested and keep them segregated. I know it's going to be difficult for them not to be out in society, but that may be the price you pay if you want to play ball.
Some sports like golf and NASCAR racing, which are better suited to social distancing, could return sooner amid the coronavirus pandemic — even without testing. Golfers could stagger their tee times on courses and walk solo between holes; NASCAR racers already compete individually in their respective cars., though its chief of operations Tyler Dennis said it hadn't yet determined how much coronavirus testing might be needed for golfers..
They better not cancel The NFL season
bc they've already planned & scheduled it? genius article