Representatives from just about every aspect of Major League Baseball, including as many as 300 employees of the Philadelphia Phillies, are coming together to help better understand COVID-19 and its spread.
Phillies employees, among as many as 10,000 total from MLB, have recently volunteered to participate in a nationwide sero-prevalence study “to help researchers determine how widespread coronavirus has become in major metropolitan areas,” according to NBC Sports Philadelphia. The league’s involvement of the quick blood test screening for coronavirus antibodies is not aimed to expedite its return, rather to “serve a greater good.”
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Nearly all of MLB’s teams have agreed to participate in the study, being conducted by researchers from Stanford University, the University of Southern California and the Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory.