What LeBron James’ covid case means for the NBA

Meanwhile, the hoopster morphs into a nagging, bold reminder of the breakout case – 10 players entered the NBA’s 11-day quarantine last month – and the league’s doctors admit it. that organizations like theirs have been deliberately slow to admit it. “We know a lot more about what happens to celebrities,” Lisa Maragakis, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins who regularly consults with federation officials, told me. “Because of concerns that it might discourage vaccination, some people have been hesitant to really get the message across that breakthrough infections happen too often.”