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

It's a really insightful episode that is well worth listening to regardless of what you feel about Project Restart.

MOT

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