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TOKYO Five out of six U.S. athletes competing in the Tokyo Olympics have been vaccinated against Covid-19, the teams top doctor revealed Friday just before the Games officially begin.
That information was culled from the health histories that 567 of the athletes filled out before they departed for Japan, said Dr. Jonathan Finnoff, who estimated that 83 percent of those competitors were fully vaccinated.
Eighty-three percent is actually a substantial number and were quite happy with it, said Finnoff, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committees medical chief.
That's higher than the national rate, with about 56 percent of Americans having received at least one dose of the vaccine. But it still means that about 100 of the total contingent of 613 U.S. athletes have not yet been vaccinated.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/olympics/about-100-us-athletes-in-tokyo-unvaccinated-as-olympics-begin/ar-AAMtzJN
Spreading the love I guess.
dalton99a
(81,406 posts)- International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/olympics-ioc-chief-tokyo-governor-meet-covid-cases-rise-2021-07-15/
PortTack
(32,715 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)This is an international disgrace, a direct F U to the Japanese people & all countries there!
Ace Rothstein
(3,144 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)But for the country where everyone 12+ has nearly immediate access to benchmark vaccines, this is just unconscionable!
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)I had assumed that all athletes would be required to have been vaccinated in order to appear anywhere near other humans. I guess they do get tested all the time, and sent home if positive, but why run the risk?