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199 - What We Can Learn From The Success of the NBA’s COVID-19 Bubble
Season 2
Episode 199
Published 5 years, 10 months ago
Description
After the National Basketball Association shut down on March 11, the league was able to resume play and complete both its season and postseason without interruption from COVID-19 from the safety of “the bubble.” Pete Meisel, the NBA’s senior manager for player health and an alumnus of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about what went into the bubble, how they maintained the players’ physical and mental health and safety, and what we can learn from the bubble’s success.
KEYWORDS: athletes; pandemic response; testing methods