Now the coronavirus is impacting sports media.
According to Michael Silverman of the Boston Globe, NESN's Jerry Remy will not travel to Baltimore for the March 30-April 1 Red Sox series against the Orioles because of a strong recommendation from his doctor amid fears of coronavirus.
"I talked with Dr. (Larry) Ronan (Monday) and with all this going on, he feels that travel wouldn't be the best thing for me right now," Remy said to the Globe. "With all my underlying conditions, they don't want me getting sick somewhere else other than at Mass General – they don't want me quarantined somewhere and I can't get back to Mass General, where they would really want me."
Remy was not scheduled to be in Toronto March 26-29 or the second road trip to Seattle and Oakland, April 9-15.
"It sucks but it is what it is," said Remy. "It always bothers me to miss games. But if it's only three, that's fine. If the thing goes on and on and I have to miss more trips that's going to really bother me. But you have to take your health, that's obviously No. 1. You can't control this stuff. You see how it's affecting things here already. You wonder what it's going to be like a month from now but you just don't know. All I can do is, temporarily at this point, say that I will not do the Baltimore series and I'll be off the road for six weeks and then we'll reassess what the virus is doing and go from there."
The NESN analyst has survived several bouts of cancer with the latest coming in Aug. of 2018 when he had a tumor in his lungs.
