ROTISSERIE: COVID was the case that they gave me

What a difference a few months makes. When I started gearing up to write this column back in March, my biggest concern injury wise was where to rank players who were already hurt during or coming into spring training. Then, in what seemed like the blink of an eye, COVID-19 showed up, people started getting sick, the whole country shut down and took professional sports with it. During the past few months of the “shutdown,” I have continued in my role as a diagnostic radiologist in the northeastern United States and have had some firsthand contact with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infections.  I’ve made more than several dozen presumptive diagnoses (later confirmed with laboratory tests), I’ve seen many of those diagnosed recover...

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