ChandlerMne 660 Posted July 22, 2021 #221 Share Posted July 22, 2021 19 minutes ago, Jan Linha said: I was also hoping for that. But seems once you are confirmed positive, you have to do 10 day quarantine no matter what. Even if you 5 consecutive negative tests... Too bad, its just a medical nonsense, especially in these sport circumstances. I hope that IOC officials are aware that some competitions are in danger not to be played at all with this rigid attitude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChandlerMne 660 Posted July 22, 2021 #222 Share Posted July 22, 2021 Sidenote - i personally had some patients that were false positive. Different studies showed that at least 5% cases are FP. If any athlete could be allowed to compete with retesting - i support that 100%. rafalgorka 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunadan 1,103 Posted July 22, 2021 #223 Share Posted July 22, 2021 They should have just decided for mandatory vaccination for everyone participating (athletes, staff - vaccines provided by IOC if not available), not allowing anyone with serious health problems or over a certain age, having people arrive 10 days before in Japan, first test (quarantine if positive) and then no more unless they had symptoms and flying home as soon as competition is over. heywoodu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,192 Posted July 22, 2021 #224 Share Posted July 22, 2021 36 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said: False positives are pretty rare. But they do exist. In fact, the design is such that false positives are much more common than false negatives. It's safer that way. #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orangehair43 177 Posted July 22, 2021 #225 Share Posted July 22, 2021 52 minutes ago, Dunadan said: They should have just decided for mandatory vaccination for everyone participating (athletes, staff - vaccines provided by IOC if not available), not allowing anyone with serious health problems or over a certain age, having people arrive 10 days before in Japan, first test (quarantine if positive) and then no more unless they had symptoms and flying home as soon as competition is over. While compulsory would have been good there was no way some NOC’s could have got that past anti vaccination board members - countries would have withdrawn. the Second would have brought the Japanese Government down - the public anger at people not being tested would be something they could not survive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benolympique 1,914 Posted July 22, 2021 #226 Share Posted July 22, 2021 RETURN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! https://www.lequipe.fr/Tous-sports/Actualites/La-guinee-va-finalement-participer-aux-jo-de-tokyo/1272116 JamDH, dcro and LuizGuilherme 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rybak 2,802 Posted July 22, 2021 #227 Share Posted July 22, 2021 2 hours ago, Orangehair43 said: False positives are pretty rare. Being only middy infected is more common than the test being wrong. Few days ago Aleksandra Kowalczuk (taekwondo) also had false positive test, luckily before arrival to Japan. She had another test, which was negative and she will start in Tokyo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshMartini007 2,313 Posted July 22, 2021 #228 Share Posted July 22, 2021 Yeah, false positives are still an issue. It may not be as bad as it was at the beginning of the pandemic (where almost 30% were false positives), but we could see a couple dozen athletes (especially if athletes are tested multiple times) getting a false positive. That's why a second test to confirm is important. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinipereira 3,087 Posted July 22, 2021 #229 Share Posted July 22, 2021 1 hour ago, Dunadan said: They should have just decided for mandatory vaccination for everyone participating (athletes, staff - vaccines provided by IOC if not available), not allowing anyone with serious health problems or over a certain age, having people arrive 10 days before in Japan, first test (quarantine if positive) and then no more unless they had symptoms and flying home as soon as competition is over. I don't know about the staff, but for Brazil about 90% of the athletes got the vaccine (271/301). So 30 athletes refused to take it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,665 Posted July 22, 2021 #230 Share Posted July 22, 2021 5 minutes ago, vinipereira said: I don't know about the staff, but for Brazil about 90% of the athletes got the vaccine (271/301). So 30 athletes refused to take it And it's not like it was hard to get for most Brazilian athletes....even those in winter sports already either got it or had the chance to get it.. If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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