Dr. Anthony Fauci had some sobering news regarding a potentially return by professional sports this summer.

Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and part of the federal response team to the COVID-19 pandemic, said in an interview Wednesday with Snapchat’s Peter Hamby that the only way professional sports can return this summer without spreading the virus would be without fans in attendance. Players would also have to be sequestered in hotels, he said.

"There's a way of doing that," Fauci said, via ESPN. "Nobody comes to the stadium. Put [the players] in big hotels, wherever you want to play, keep them very well surveilled. ... Have them tested every single week and make sure they don't wind up infecting each other or their family, and just let them play the season out."

The PGA Tour thus far is the only major American professional sports league to announce plans to return to competition without fans in attendance, with a tentative re-start date of June 11 at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas. Major League Baseball has also floated the idea of single-site competition with no fans, potentially utilizing spring training facilities in Florida and Arizona.