The sports world has gone dark. The NBA season is suspended. Major League Baseball’s is delayed. The coronavirus, which has officially been deemed a pandemic, and which led President Trump on Friday to declare a national emergency, has shut down countless sporting events and leagues across the United States.
And it has millions of fans wondering: How long will the sports shutdown last?
“I can promise you no one on this planet can answer that question,” Myron Cohen, a global health expert at the University of North Carolina, told Yahoo Sports on Sunday.