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cord-280210-6xivdgvt	Eichner, E. Randy	Writing on Sports Medicine in Pandemic Times	2020-07-08		.txt	text/plain	1661	119	75	So I try to keep up with epidemiology, even though at this writing, in May 2020, more than 10,000 scientific or medical articles have already appeared on this novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, that causes the disease COVID-19. So, against all odds, I will start with thoughts on infections and epidemics, on our primal fear of contagion, and on quarantine or "social distancing." Then, I will address four questions I have received that are relevant to athletes. Now is the time to read John Barry's "The Great Influenza," on the deadliest plague in history, the influenza pandemic from early 1918 to early 1920 that killed up to 100 million people worldwide. Early in the acquired immune deficiency syndrome panic, a Boston neurosurgeon called for Massachusetts to quarantine "irresponsible" carriers of human immunodeficiency virus on Penikese Island. Question 3: If athletes test positive for the antibody, are they immune to this Coronavirus?	./cache/cord-280210-6xivdgvt.txt	./txt/cord-280210-6xivdgvt.txt