Until Dr. Anthony S. As Fawcett can remember, last season was the first time that his life was almost completely devoid of watching Bezab. “I’m in a lot of pain,” he said in an interview with The New York Times on Friday evening. He later added, “It was really terrible.”
Before the coronavirus epidemic turned the world upside down and ruined its own life, U.S. The government’s top infectious disease specialist and adviser to seven presidents, Focus, wanted to get rid of the work coming from visiting the Nationals Park, cracking beer, eating hot. Watching the dog and his beloved citizens. Growing up, he played in Brooklyn’s Sandlots, remembering the Yankees and remembering players’ stats.
“My year has been a completely lost year,” Fau Si, 80, said. “I hope next year it will be a little different, but it depends on the dynamics of the outbreak.”
With spring training set to begin next week in Arizona and Florida – both frequent hotspots for the virus – and the Major League Baseball ball season starting April 1, the FAU discussed public health challenges ahead, optimizing that a normal 162-game season could be played. That’s what fans can safely return to the stands outside and that’s what he told baseball officials.
Despite not seeing much baseball last season, do you at least know how the Citizens did it? (After winning World Series title in 2019, They went 26-34 in 2020 – the last tie in the National League East.
Yes, a little disappointing. But we will come back.
In terms of health, what you followed and how you saw MLB and players took over the 2020 season Without the Bubble – After the initial outbursts at the Miami Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals who took the crisis in season to tighten protocol and bubble-like conditions during the post-season?
Unfortunately, I can’t really comment on it because I was completely taken away from it. I feel bad because I’m such a big fan, but I was completely out of it. I worked 18, 19 hours a day, seven days a week. I don’t have time.
Federal officials spoke separately with the MLB and Players Union last week. Do you recommend delaying the season or continuing as planned?
I wasn’t recommending one way or the other because it was very clear that there was tension between the Major League Baseball leadership and the Players’ Association – whether the players wanted to go on schedule for the season and whether they were a little worried about it. . It should be delayed, which will have pay and other effects. I couldn’t get involved.
The only thing, I said, in terms of public health, it seems like cases – if you look at the conspiracy of cases – they are taught, they are coming back and starting to come down. And perhaps, the more time passes, the less and less cases we will see. Unless – except – and this is a possibility, we have an unexpected increase related to some types. So I think it will be a really close call and I don’t want to get into any controversy about delaying or not delaying it.
All I can say is that whatever you do, you have to do your best to protect the players and the people involved in the game because you don’t want them to get infected. Over time, more and more vaccines will become available. And I can imagine that the players and everyone else would be vaccinated within a reasonable period of time. I don’t think it’s going to happen before the season starts, but I think it will be something that is on the horizon.
Even so, I didn’t want to take any kind of side in any controversy because I think it’s a decision of experience. It’s really a judgment call.
Does any other professional sports league even ask for advice?
They are all. And that’s the only reason I’m a little shy about this because it’s out of context. They ask me questions that are public health science questions and I answer them based on solid scientific data. The decision they make is up to them.
although The case is downward trend, They are even more than the July 23 to 2020 season began. So are you more or less optimistic that the 162-game season could be over?
I have a little bit of optimism about that – but I have to note that it’s cautious optimism – that is, although the case is high compared to this time last year, it is downhill. And as each day goes by, it seems like it gets less and less. If you look a month ago, we were getting 300,000 to 400,000 cases a day. Now for a few days in a row, we have had less than 100,000 cases, which has dropped significantly.
So as the slope goes down, we are going in the right direction. Superposes on the fact that we now have very effective vaccines being rolled out. We are vaccinating more and more people every day. And as the weeks and months go by we will have more and more vaccines available. So it looks like we are moving in the right direction. Whether it stays in the direction depends on a set of things: will people continue to be vigilant and implement public health measures? What’s going to happen with the variables? Will they make things more difficult by making an extra spike in the infection? I do not know.
The big wild cards are really forms. Because of the type in the UK that is likely to become more prevalent in the US, the models tell us that will probably happen by the end of March. If we don’t follow the public health measures the way we should, it can take us away. This is the reason I say I am cautiously optimistic because we can turn around and move in the opposite direction very quickly.
These rules may vary in different communities, but in the meantime what do you think about the possibility of having fans? Spring training And Regular season?
The positive side of Bezab .l is that most of them are on the outside. And if you give people a good space, you make people wear masks, you have situations where people don’t crowd to get food and things like that at close proximity to each other, you can pull it off very safely, I Believe.
Government of New York. Andrew M. Cuomo Announced starting February 23rd, With testing, distance and face covering requirements, arenas and stadiums with 10,000 or more seats can host up to 10 percent of the space’s capacity. Is it advisable?
If you are going to indoors it, you will get significantly less than its outdoor capacity. The outdoor is a great safety valve in the sense of transmitting respiratory disease. Outdoor is always better than indoor.
As a fan of passionate citizens, do you go back to Nationals Park to watch a game this season?
It depends entirely on the level of virus in the community. If you look at the newspaper charts about the infection every time it goes up and down, then I’m getting ready to go to the game – where for me, it’s so hot that the game to go there – I I can very well decide that I want to go to the stands. But again, it’s hard to make a decision in the middle of the colder month of February that you can make in March or April because you don’t know what the level of infection will be.
On a final note, would you like to throw a second mon formal first pitch after last year? Wrong tsss In Nationals Park on the opening day?
I want a chance to rid myself. (Laughter.)
Have you been given that opportunity?
No, they haven’t mentioned anything about it yet.
Are you practicing at least in the meantime?
I do not have The only problem was why I threw it so badly: I practiced too much and injured my hand.
