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"The virus will make the decision for us."
That is what Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is the director of the National Institutes for Health, told Peter King when discussing the possibility of football returning for the latter's Football Morning in America column.
"I think it's feasible that negative testing players could play to an empty stadium," Fauci said. "Is it guaranteed? No way."
While the doctor said it's "inevitable" there will be additional waves of the coronavirus during the fall and winter—which is the middle of the NFL season—he also suggested the possibility remains there could even be fans filling in "a third of the stadium or half the stadium so people could be six feet apart.