A day after Olympic organizers confirmed the first non-athlete case of COVID-19 in the Olympic village, the first athletes have tested positive five days before the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics.
The non-athlete, a video analyst, was a member of the South African Football Association, along with the two athlete cases: South African soccer players defender Thabiso Monyane and midfielder Kamohelo Mahlatsi. South Africa is set to play Japan in its first game of the men’s soccer competition on Thursday, July 22, at the Tokyo Stadium.
Olympic organizers also said Sunday that a non-Japanese athlete, who is not residing in the Olympic village, and the first International Olympic Committee (IOC) member, 2004 South Korean Olympic table tennis champion Ryu Seung-min, received positive COVID-19 tests. Seung-min was asymptomatic when tested, yet remains in isolation.
Since July 1st, Olympic organizers admit a total of 55 people linked to the Olympics have reported positive, not including athletes or others under the IOC jurisdiction. However, on Sunday, Tokyo reported 1,008 new COVID-19 cases, the 29th day in a row that the new cases number was higher than the previous week and fifth consecutive day with more than 1,000 reported cases.
The Olympic Village is set to house 11,000 Olympic athletes as well as an additional thousands of support staff in Tokyo Bay. Upon arrival to the Olympic village, all athletes had access to a COVID-19 vaccination, including against the newly-spawned variant.
The official opening ceremony for the Tokyo Olympics will begin on Friday July 23. The ceremony will also open while Tokyo and three surrounding prefectures are under a state of emergency, which went into order on July 12 and will last until August 22. The official closing ceremony is set for August 8. The Olympics this summer will also be held with no spectators, both local and international.
Expect almost daily reports of COVID-positive cases from now on. This is going to become the non-Olympic Olympics (might have turned out better for all if it had been postponed until 2022).
Hot off the press:
https://sports.yahoo.com/coco-gauff-withdraws-tokyo-olympics-192709132.html
I’ll just say this: the Olympics is not the place to test out whether your ‘natural’ immunity works better than the vaccination. One unknowingly-positive-testing athlete in the warmup pool can basically put a halt to whatever percent of the competition community was in the pool at the same time. Like, the whole men’s 100 breaststroke continengent, or the whole 200 IM contingent cancelled to 14-day quarantines.
The selfishness, ignorance and narcissism is just staggering. No one should be allowed anywhere near the pool if they haven’t been vaccinated. I’m surprised the US Men’s Team, much less the IOC, is allowing it.
The odds of re-infection are roughly the same as the odds of vaccine breakthrough infections. There’s enough out there showing that now.
Virtually everyone at the pool (or staying in the Olympic Village) are on an even playing field for this risk, assuming they had either natural immunity or vaccination. Now those without either, sure, one can make a good argument re: rolling the dice.
Also, as of now (see the South African soccer players currently), vaccination status is NOT factored into the contact tracing protocols.
That first line of yours should be framed.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.03.21259976v2
the scientists disagree.
Michael Andrew may wish he had gotten vaccinated after seeing all these positive Covid cases happening to athletes now….
While I agree that Michael Andrew should have gotten vaccinated, to be fair, the US still has far more Covid cases than Japan.
He contradicted the virus and got over it naturally. He still has the antibodies, aka a natural protection which is inherently better than artificial protection, the vaccine, when protecting against viral infections.
According to doctors and scientists, vaccines provide broader immunity than natural immunity when variants come into play. Natural immunity is good at protecting you against the same version of COVID that you had, but less good than a vaccine at protecting you against variants because it is such a targeted immune response.
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/vaccine-natural-immunity-after-covid-whats-more-effectiv-denver-colorado/73-2ab4633c-7189-4861-9560-05886e540903
And what are the details of the set-up and interaction etc. that Team USA are experiencing at their camp which is outside the Olympic village that your Swimswam professional journalists are surely investigating?
I posted a bunch of links to some studies (some peer-reviewed, some going through the process, and a couple other write-ups….so, some doctors/scientists, too?) saying Michael Andrew has virtually the same probability (and possibly even better odds of it not happening) of re-infection as those whom have been vaccinated.
https://swimswam.com/michael-andrew-opens-up-about-decision-not-to-receive-covid-vaccine/#comment-942109
Also, not sure your last line is correct. Here’s a Cell paper basically saying “eh…maybe not”.
Landscape of epitopes targeted by T cells in 852 individuals recovered from COVID-19: Meta-analysis, immunoprevalence, and web platform: Cell Reports Medicine
“This indicates that ∼80% of the immunoprevalent epitopes lie in proteins other than S…”
The vaccines are ONLY S-protein based….if the S-protein undergoes mutation, then….
Others say natural immunity may last much longer
Per reviewed study not some random doctor saying stuff to the news: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.03.21259976v2
The media published doctors were wrong about asymptomatic transmission (https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/4/20-4576_article), they’re probably wrong about the vaccine being better. Plus, most doctors don’t even agree on this stuff, I have friends and family who are doctors and none of them agree. Data > doctors opinions. Especially when the main stream media is the filter for good and bad doctors.
Not against Delta. https://trialsitenews.com/covid-19-case-data-in-israel-a-troubling-trend/
This is absolute rubbish. You lose those antibodies at 3 months or less. Only the vaccine will protect you. Stop posting this crap.
That’s false sir. I was infected in October and as of 2 weeks ago tested positive for quantitative antibodies at a level over 200. Go back to CNN and liberal media
wow and you’re a whole sample size of 1! astounding research on your part, thank you for your effort <3
There’s literally no research that says this. Find it, I dare you. They made it up, just like the 6 ft social distancing thing.
If he has antibodies and at a high level why would he? Everyone is vax vax vax but until someone can state how the vaccine is any more effective then the natural immunity what’s the point. If your natural immunity is still at a decent level there is no difference and yet no one wants to bring that up. If he didn’t have Covid then it may be a different story.
You’re probably not going to read this blockbuster report in Nature a couple of weeks ago then https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24435-8. “Therefore, although the human immune system can produce antibodies that target diverse RBD epitopes, in practice the polyclonal response to infection is skewed towards a single class of antibodies targeting an epitope that is already undergoing rapid evolution.”
Seriously? Nature.com? At least use something credible!
These comment threads vary so wildly from cold takes to /s that I am not sure if I am the boomer or zoomer here.
Since we are referring to Nature.com
Had COVID? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01442-9
Which is great for that epitope. They won’t do squat against an epitope that’s mutated, hence the at least short-term (as in during an f’in pandemic) benefit of the vaccines.
Report blah blah. Anyone can write those, show me some pier reviewed science from a credible journal. Oh wait… https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.03.21259976v2
Coco has COVID
I look at the Tokyo photograph and the first thought was, Godzilla. Sorry, had to say it.
Scawwwy Virwus! Oh no
whats the r doing in there.. amateur
Can you elaborate? Are you implying there have been prior cases?
Just waiting for MA to test ++. Now that’ll stir the pot.
He’s prolly still got antibodies
Can still test positive.
So could someone who is vaccinated
Recently published findings show no difference in positive test results from vaccinated individuals and individuals who already had covid. There’s literally no point in him getting the vaccine.
Wow
Then watch Dressel/Ledecky lose out on a few gold medals because they have to go into COVID protocol after being exposed to him.