Bonus Episode: How Safe is the Championship Return for Leeds Players?
In this episode, Jon is joined by Alex Benham, a PhD student from the University of Oxford who focuses his studies on the history of pandemics and their impacts on public health. Alex talks in great detail about:
The testing protocols for the Championship
How these compare to the Premier League's
What Leeds are doing with a PCR testing machine
How safe is training?
How safe is playng?
The disproportionate risk for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) people
What the timeline of the disease looks like
What is actually at stake here?
How we can be more responsible as fans about this return…
The skinny
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