Ryan Marino, who’s worked with Covid patients as an emergency physician and is also a medical toxicologist, says he thinks Lawrence raises some valid points about the medical resources that colleges can offer their students. But the fact remains: playing football is riskier than not playing football.
“I don’t think it’s true that they’re at high risk by not playing,” Marino says. “[Football] is contact sport that involves a lot of closed-quarters and activities where you’re generating more of these aerosols. We know exercise is something that
increases the spread. So that is probably the big concern, and why that statement is not true.”