The Inevitable COVID "Olympic Variant"

PeerPOV: The Pulse on Medicine

Jul 21 2021 • 17 mins

In an interview with Physician’s Weekly, Annie Sparrow, MD, Special Advisor to the Director-General, World Health Organization, implores the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to heed lessons of the past and warning signs for the future

This week, the world’s greatest athletes will gather together in Tokyo for the Olympics – and, unfortunately, so will COVID variants. Physician’s Weekly, a trusted source of medical news, voices the growing concern from the medical community of a post-Olympic spike in COVID cases in an interview with Annie Sparrow, MD, Assistant Professor, Population Health Science & Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York.

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