While much has changed in our understanding of COVID-19 and how the virus operates from the early days of March, one thing has remained consistent: those individuals in certain “high-risk” categories, such as those over 65 or with pre-existing health conditions, have always been, and continue to be, at greater risk of contracting coronavirus and becoming severely ill and/or passing away due to complications of the virus. As baseball looks to tentatively re-open, one panacea that has been freely passed around is the notion that most players, the majority of whom are in their twenties or early thirties and in prime physical condition, are generally about as low-risk as populations come, with a few exceptions, such as the Rangers’ Jake Diekman, who has ulcerative colitis, a chronic disease that can flare up painfully with no warning.
Mariners coaches who fall in the high-risk category for COVID-19 caught in difficult place
