The over-reliance on testing highlights another hole in the Olympics' pandemic control, experts say. “It’s mind-blowing.”
TOKYO—Argentinian pole vaulter German Chiaraviglio described his days in the Olympic village as a sleep-robbing, emotional Covid rollercoaster. First, he tested positive, setting off a mandatory isolation. Several hours and a negative test later, he was set free, allowed to resume normal life, he postedThat freedom was short-lived. The next day, the same sequence of events played out. And the day after that too, until finally on July 28, both tests came back positive.
“It’s really hard to process something like this. It’s likely going to take me a long time,” he said., experts say: that testing can prevent spread. Complicating matters: testing isn’t uniform, with athletes taking different kinds of tests, the results of which are then weighted differently, infectious-disease experts said. That, coupled with the porous bubble organizers have set up in the absence of mandatory vaccinations, is a recipe for inevitable outbreaks, they said.
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