At the end of a 20-minute telephone interview on Saturday evening with the American expert COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci, I asked questions about best sports news and the teams playing soccer this fall.
"Suppose," I asked him, "that you tested a team of 53 players on Saturday night and that four were positive. Is there a level where ..."
Fauci, director of the National Institute of Health since 1984, interrupted him. "You have problems there," he said. "Do you know why? Since four of them are probably positive and combined, the remaining negatives are really positive. So I mean if you have an outlier [player with a positive test] I think you could get out of your own, but as soon as You are in a situation where it appears to be spreading across a team, you have a real problem
Shut up, quarantine team, that is. The next two games of this team for 14 days? Canceled or delayed. It could be life in the NFL in 2020.
"Also," I said, "the teams should be ready to say that Patrick Magomes should be two weeks away if installed on Saturday night."
"Absolutely, absolutely," said Fauchi. "It would be a medical misconduct, absolutely deny it."
The conversation with Fauci was instructive to underline what most people in the United States who want to know about this corona virus are thinking: we don't know the future. Anthony Fauci doesn't know the future either. Our fate, and of course the fate of the NFL in 2020, depends on what we cannot know now: how long this spread will take will be the severity of its second wave later this year or early 2021. If we can enter a season football, college or professional will definitely work until the end, and fans won't be participating in any of these games this season. I wanted Fosi to tell me and tell the country if we can play the regular 256-game season that the NFL just announced, with the February Super Bowl and a bit of normalcy in this crazy world.