MLB players and team employees are taking part this week in a first-of-its-kind coronavirus study out of California, . Researchers aretrying to determine wherethe virus has spread in the United States by testing participants for antibodies in their blood.
People who just read the tweet of the source report and saw "tests" may have thought that this Darrell Green Jerseys is a "Get Baseball Out of Quarantine" card. It is not.
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To keep Washington Commanders Accessories everyone's attention here, let's be brief: This is not a backdoor attempt to resume baseball activities this month by replacing the actual COVID-19 test with something else.
"MLB did not partner with us for any selfish reason to get their sport back sooner. They jumped in for public health policy. That was their intention and their only intention," Dr. Daniel Eichner told Pa san. Eichner is president of the Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory, which is conducting the survey withStanford University and USC. Pa san noted that Eichner has worked with MLB previously on anti-doping testing.
Le s generous readers would say that MLB is not being altruistic, even if it doesn't have to pay to be part of the study. (Pa san reports Chris Cooley Jerseys donors are funding it.)Commi sioner Rob Manfred that baseball will return when public health Dax Milne Jerseys has improved enough for games to be played safely. It makes sense for the industry to a sist in anything that might reduce the wait.
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But there's no guarantee the survey results will lead to better protective measures. For now, the researchers willcollect the results of the approximately 10,000 blood tests distributed to MLB personnel (The Athletic reported are participating), crunch the numbers and then prepare a report on the study Sonny Jurgensen Jerseys for peer review as early as next week.
"My ambition is to have these kinds of tests going on in every community in a meaningful way," Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a profe sor of medicine at Stanford, told Pa san. He noted the importance of MLB having a role in the survey, and then added this, which concludedPa san's long story:
"It's not the end of the testing. In my view, it's the beginning."
In other words, this isn't a quick fix.
People who got their hopes up after reading le s than the top line of theoriginal story Billy Kilmer Jerseys might feel disappointed or angry if they ever readmore. Sorry, but this study isn't magically bringing baseball back.