Nathan R. Jessep
Footballguy
Didn't see an Olympics thread yet. Was reading yesterday on the Your Local Epidemiologist's blog about the upcoming games, and well, things seem a tad unsettled to say the least, thanks to COVID. Should be interesting to see how this unfolds in the coming weeks.
Here are the high points:
MEDAL COUNT: https://www.cbssports.com/olympics/news/medal-count-tokyo-2021-olympics/
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: https://www.nbcolympics.com/full-schedule
OLYMPICS PLAYBOOKS: https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/games/tokyo-2020-playbooks/
Here are the high points:
- Japan is currently in the midst of their 4th wave of the pandemic, including shutdowns which started on April 25, and has now been extended until June 20
- over 90% of cases in Japan are variants of concern, including B.1.1.7 (first detected in U.K.) and B.1.617 (first detected in India). While these are not more deadly, they are more transmissible
- only 7.73% of Japan has had at least one dose of the vaccine
- The International Olympic Committee (IOC) stated that at least 80% of people staying in the Olympic village will have been vaccinated... basically the data behind that number is in question for several reasons (age, countries of residence, vaccine resistance etc. of the athletes who will be in attendance)
- If the games were to be canceled, it would cost Japan an estimated 1.81 trillion yen ($17 billion US dollars)
- In recent national polls, 60-80% of Japanese residents don’t agree that the Olympics should go on, worried that it would cause a 5th surge
- Safety concerns for athletes and staff: there is major concern around testing plans, contact tracing plans, transmission within non-competition spaces, and transmission within certain high-risk competition spaces
- On the social media version of her post of this, there were several Japanese citizens voicing their concerns based on what they are seeing on the ground in Japan (Tokyo in particular), where many health clinics are completely closed, and they are having a hard time getting tested (like, you have to meet some sort of ludicrous criteria to even get tested) and are worried about finding available healthcare should they become sick
MEDAL COUNT: https://www.cbssports.com/olympics/news/medal-count-tokyo-2021-olympics/
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: https://www.nbcolympics.com/full-schedule
OLYMPICS PLAYBOOKS: https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/games/tokyo-2020-playbooks/
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