Tokyo 2020

Olympics: Unanswered questions about serious COVID-19 risks

Article initially published in The Hill on July 6, 2021 and written by Lisa M. Brosseau, SCD and Annie Sparrow M.D. With the Olympics less than three weeks away, time is running out, but there are still important precautions that could be implemented to avoid a...

Protecting Olympic Participants from Covid-19 — The Urgent Need for a Risk-Management Approach

Article initially published in The New England Journal of Medicine on July 1, 2021 and written by Annie K. Sparrow, M.D., M.P.H., Lisa M. Brosseau, Sc.D., Robert J. Harrison, M.D., M.P.H., and Michael T. Osterholm, Ph.D., M.P.H. In late July,...

How the IOC can avoid a COVID-19 superspreader Olympics

Getty Images Article initially published in The Hill on June 16, 2021 and written by Lisa Brosseau and Annie Sparrow. Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there is good reason to be extremely concerned that the International Olympics Committee (IOC) and the Japanese...