Returning to Sports During a Pandemic with Dr. Jason Newland

It’s been a long several months with stay-at-home orders, a lack of consistent nationwide recommendations of what should and should not be done, and a lot of empty gyms and vacant fields. COVID-19 has certainly thrown all of our lives for a loop. It’s also a little humbling to become a less essential physician when a virus is wreaking havoc around the world but there has been certainly a lot lower demand for a sports medicine physician during this slow down. But as we start to see the curve flattening of cases and deaths and an actual decline in positive test rates around the country, considerations are needing to be made as how do we safely reintroduce kids back to sports. Missouri received some extra attention this past week as baseball and softball tournaments were already happening less than a week after our governor stopped the stay at home order. Social distancing was still to be the norm, however, in many team sports and when you are dealing with a lot of pre-teen kids, that’s a little hard to enforce and make happen efficiently. In response to this quick restart of sports, several sports medicine and infectious disease specialists from the St Louis area including those from Washington University School of Medicine, Mercy and SSM Health Systems worked together to create a document to help guide kids back safely into youth sports. Today on the podcast I’ll be joined by Dr. Jason Newland, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at St Louis Children’s Hospital and a key part of the team that put these recommendations together to hash out what’s in the documents and some of the reasoning behind it   The Pediatric Sports Medicine Podcast Links Bar: Connect with the Host: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Subscribe to This Podcast & Listen Now! Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Amazon Spotify Stitcher RSS Blubrry Find Even More Ways to Listen & Subscribe ...