A study of 5,754 employees, including a handful of active players, from 27 Major League Baseball teams revealed that about 0.7 percent tested …
A study of 5,754 employees, including a handful of active players, from 27 Major League Baseball teams revealed that about 0.7 percent tested positive for coronavirus antibodies, the doctors heading the study announced Sunday.
The employees, all of whom live in the United States, either received tests from medical personnel at their home ballparks or self-administered tests in their homes.
Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University who ran the study, said in a telephone news conference on Sunday that the results serve as “a really important peek into the public health consequences of COVID-19 and also the nature of the disease.
