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NBA reopening concerns top doc

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NBA reopening concerns top doc
NBA reopening concerns top doc
Dr. Brian McDonough not convinced the NBA is proceeding cautiously.

Windows while the minnesota timberwolves' season has come to an end ?

"* some other nba teams are preparing to play in floria next month... in what's being called a ?

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And that has one medical doctor george spoke to ?

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"* a lit concerned... george.

It really is a florida bubble.

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"* will all b quarantined at the disney campus in florida.

They'll wrap up their truncated regular season first and then the playoffs begin.

Cbs medical contributor and clinician dr. brian mcdonough has serious concerns about how the league is proceeding.

Specifically, he is troubled by a recent question answered by nba commissioner adam silver.

Somebody asked him the question, if a player tests positive for covid 19 will you then shut down the team, shut down the league, what will you do?

And his answer was, no, no we're testing regularly.

We'll certainly pick up cases so we're going to continue playing.and that would make sense if we had tests that we're anywhere close to 100 percent reliable but they're not dr. mcdonough says the testing silver is clinging to is better than nothing, but the doctor points out that you can still have asymptomatic carriers and false negatives.

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Athletes breathing heavy on each other?

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"* droplet directly from their respiratory systems into the air.

Dr. mcdonough is a doctor first?

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"* he is treati what the doctor does like, though, is the fact that the teams will be isolated in disney hotels and that there will not be fans at

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