How safe is fall football in the eyes of medical experts? One infectious disease doctor compared those holding out hope to passengers on the Titanic waiting for the band to start playing as the ship sank.
This morning, NCAA Chief Medical Officer Brian Hainline and other doctors held a conference call with reporters about COVID-19, during which Carlos del Rio, a Distinguished Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University School of Medicine, said the country needs to be focused on controlling the pandemic, not sports.
"We need to focus on what’s important.