How Tokyo Olympics COVID-19 Countermeasures May Be Falling Short
was never going to be easy, and the Tokyo Organizing Committee consulted with numerous public health experts and invested in tracking app systems to help curb the spread of the virus within the Olympic community.
Athletes and media are also asked to take Olympic-only transport, which consists of buses or designated taxis that can be reserved and have been cleaned and cleared. Yet again, given Tokyo’s low vaccination rate, the drivers of these buses aren’t likely to be vaccinated, and return home to their families after their shifts.
What about a room with not 10, 20 or 30 people but 100, 200 or 300 people in the Main Press Center workroom, or any of the press rooms at venues, sitting less than six feet apart for hours at a time, with only plexiglass barriers between them? “Barriers are a way to add that much more distance for the droplet to travel. But there are clouds on both sides of the barrier.
The only reassuring news comes from the fact that getting infected that way is a matter of both distance and time, says Edwards. The shorter time spent in the vicinity of such a cloud, the less likely the person is to get infected.
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