Covid Cases at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

[ChandlerMne 1,037]

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.

[ChandlerMne 1,037]

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%. 

 

[Dunadan 1,103]

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. 

[dcro 10,210]

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.

[Orangehair43 251]

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been good there was no way some NOC’s could have got that past anti vaccination board members - countries would have withdrawn.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. 

 

[Benolympique 2,398]

RETURN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://www.lequipe.fr/Tous-sports/Actualites/La-guinee-va-finalement-participer-aux-jo-de-tokyo/1272116

[rybak 3,217]

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 

[JoshMartini007 2,537]

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.

[vinipereira 3,240]

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 

[heywoodu 15,141]

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..