Dr. Robert Sallis is a family and sports medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Fontana California. He’s the director of sports medicine fellowship at Kaiser Permanente, a clinical professor of family medicine at UC Riverside School of Medicine and chief medical officer for the Los Angeles Football Club.
Dr. Sallis was the principal investigator of a study published in the April edition of the British Journal of Sports Medicine that observed nearly 50,000 adults with COVID-19. Researchers found those who met the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' physical activity guidelines of at least 150 minutes per week of moderate to vigorous physical activity showed significantly lower risks of hospitalization, ICU admission and death due to COVID-19.
He shares the significance of his findings, He provides some theories as to why exercise helps lessen the severity of covid symptoms, and how someone who’s been diagnosed with covid should start back into an exercise routine safely. He also discusses the problem with the messaging around how to handle the pandemic. And how we can be more prepared for the next pandemic.
