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Gymnast Uchimura tests positive for COVID-19 ahead of key meet

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Hope he recovers. Health first!

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Organizers said it was unclear whether Uchimura, who is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, will be pulling out of the Nov 8 meet that will also feature athletes from China, Russia and the United States. However, the event is still scheduled to be held as planned.

Medically speaking he could be completely asymptomatic and still would be required to be on isolation by November 8th, saying that this is unclear prove that the priority of the event is not the health of the athletes.

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When coming back to Japan, a two weeks quarantine is still required even after two consecutives negative tests (only one at arrival for Japanese citizens), but an athlete testing positive now could make the tournament if tested negative in one week.

That's make no sense ?

 

“All the other teams have been isolated in their countries”

How can be you sure ? it is just a requirement made and question of trust.

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First of all I hope and wish Uchimura a full and speedy recovery. That is and should be the only priority.

Watanabe San had put the bar very high by declaring that his event would be a show and test case for a safe Olympics. He has now proven the contrary. A safe Olympics is not possible even with all possible precautions and the scale of the Olympics is 1000x this mini event. Against all hope we must now expect other team and staff members to be infected and at this point even considering going ahead with this event is irresponsible. Why run the risk that the foreign delegations get infected here and take it back to their countries? That can create new clusters in those countries.

taking the position that it is only one and isolated case is what has spread the disease in the first place and has caused Europe’s 2nd wave.

All best wishes for a speedy recovery to Uchimura San.

Watanabe San has no blame, nor does anyone else for now. But now is the time to show real leadership , cancel the event, or be ready to do take responsibility for any future infection through this event

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Medically speaking he could be completely asymptomatic and still would be required to be on isolation by November 8th, saying that this is unclear prove that the priority of the event is not the health of the athletes.

As mentioned in the article, he will be retested twice, and has to clear both tests. Not sure what symptoms have to do with it.

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"Organizers said it was unclear whether Uchimura, who is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, will be pulling out of the Nov 8 meet..."

Typical. The guy tests positive and already, since they're trying to draw a crowd and want to showcase "preparedness in dealing with the pandemic" are just brushing it off and suggesting he might be able to attend, ignoring the mandatory two weeks of quarantine even for potential EXPOSURE. I'm just surprised they're not cursing him for not waiting to catch it, you know, like some politicians criticised Ikee for getting leukaemia when she poses one of Japan's best chances at a swimming gold.

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As mentioned in the article, he will be retested twice, and has to clear both tests. Not sure what symptoms have to do with it.

Negative tests do not mean he is no longer at risk of spreading the disease, it only mean the virus was not found at that moment. It is well known that during the course of the disease the viral loads in the upper respiratory tracks decrease, making the tests come out as negative more often, but at the same time the loads on the lower respiratory tracks become higher, so the person can still spread the infection.

For a person without any symptoms but a positive test the minimum time of isolation is 10 days after his positive test. Medically it is not justified for him to break isolation before that and being tested repeatedly do not shorten this period. He could be tested 5 times tomorrow and be negative in all those tests and he would still be considered a possible vector on November 8th.

And obviously symptoms are extremely important because they are signs of active viral infection. If he is asymptomatic now, but gets a fever in two days that resets the period of isolation to 10 days from then. This is specially important for activities where transmission is easier, like sports.

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His case turns out to be false positive.

内村航平は「偽陽性」新型コロナ感染していなかった 国際体操連盟が発表

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/001eeacc0d243205ad8e0dbdfd9b38ae4ea68946

Unless confirmation/follow-ups are made, media outlets including here JT should stop rushing to report an individual case for celebrity or public figures. That wouldn't produce anything but hype, futile guesswork and discussions.

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