by Annie Sparrow | Oct 7, 2021 | Articles, Beijing 2022, Covid-19, Infectious Threats, Olympics, Sports
Article initially published in Medpagetoday on October 7, 2021 and written by Annie Sparrow Beijing recently announced extraordinarily strict COVID-19 restrictionsopens in a new tab or window for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games: athletes must arrive vaccinated...
by Annie Sparrow | Aug 27, 2021 | Articles, Conflict, Infectious Threats, Polio, Syria
ACU/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Health workers carrying polio vaccine, as part of a vaccination campaign organized by the opposition Assistance Coordination Unit, Aleppo, Syria, May 5, 2014 Article initially published in The New York Review on August 27, 2014 and...
by Annie Sparrow | Jul 6, 2021 | Articles, Olympics, Sports, Tokyo 2020
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...
by Annie Sparrow | Jul 1, 2021 | Articles, Covid-19, Infectious Threats, Olympics, Sports, Tokyo 2020
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,...
by Annie Sparrow | Jun 16, 2021 | Articles, Covid-19, Infectious Threats, Olympics, Sports, Tokyo 2020
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...
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