“The bubble in the NBA worked perfectly, there were no corona cases. But in Europe that is not possible in football,” said Dean Winslow, professor of infectious diseases at Stanford University.
“The sports matches themselves are not the greatest risk, but it is all the travel and the social contact that creates a higher one. The chance that the risk will travel extra through those matches is all in all quite small. Society must then decide: is it worth that risk? “
“You can make it all as safe as you want, you take a risk anyway. Are you willing to accept that?”
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Winslow’s colleague Stefano D’Amelio, from the University of Rome, raises an ethical problem. “The gap between how they think in the sports world and how they think in the real world is big. It seems as if sport seems to be outside society.”
“My advice is therefore: apply the same rules in sports as for the rest of the population. If the country goes into lockdown? Then the athletes must also go into lockdown. I understand the social importance of sports such as football, but this sends a wrong message. “
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