A COVID-19 outbreak has emerged at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, and at least 40 athletes tested positive, including U.S. track star Noah Lyles.
Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the director of epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention at the World Health Organization, said in a briefing Tuesday that many countries have seen a surge in COVID, including the international group of athletes gathered at the Olympics.
Unlike the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, which had stricter rules to prevent the spread of the virus, this year’s competition has nearly returned to pre-pandemic norms.
Despite Lyles’ positive test sparking international criticism, athletes seem to be shrugging off the illness and recognize that COVID is just something the world lives with now, per The Washington Post.
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Covid is so dangerous that you can win an Olympic medal while testing positive.
Remember, they literally shut down the world and harmed a generation of kids for a virus that was only a risk to the elderly and frail.
He's vaccinated! He suffers from Asthma so Covid is a bigger threat to him, but because he's vaccinated and boosted, the symptoms are lessened AND he took Paxlovid, which accelerates recovery.
So he's vaccinated and still got Covid?
Djokovic wasn't and won a gold.
multiple meta-analysis actually, surprisingly, didn't show asthma as a major Covid risk factor.
Paxlovid also causes rebounds in the short-term and isn't needed by young, healthy people.
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Important to note that the earlier variants of covid19 were more severe than those we are seeing now (plus widespread vaccinations). The average age of those admitted to critical care in the UK in waves 1 & 2 was 60y. In wave 3 (delta) it was 50y in those not vaccinated
Yes, they said at the time that it was to protect the elderly. Do you object to this?
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