Monday night, the Phillies will resume their COVID-interrupted season with a four-game home-and-home series in New York, and the Yankees will treat them like they’re radioactive. As they should.
The Phillies team had an outbreak in Florida before the season started, then hosted the Typhoid Marlins in the season-opening series. The Marlins might have arrived contaminated, but they left town with 20 positive cases. Now, the Eagles’ football coach has the coronavirus. Philadelphia has become Ground Zero for pro sports’ COVID panic.
These outbreaks won’t end. Not with players (and their wives and children and girlfriends and parents and friends) traipsing around unmasked and unconcerned.