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Dr. Anthony Fauci lays out plan for sports returning soon without fans

The hurdles are endless.

But Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the nation’s top doctors in charge of leading the response to the coronavirus pandemic, said sports returning without fans is within the realm of possibility.

The chances of it actually happening depend on a league’s or organization’s ability to procure massive amounts of tests and how closely they monitor their players.

”There’s a way of doing that,” Fauci said on Snapchat’s show “Good Luck America” when asked if there was going to be a college football season in 2020. ”Nobody comes to the stadiums. Put (athletes) in big hotels, wherever you want to play.