The Olympics are a Petri dish for infectious diseases. Now they might be in trouble because of the coronavirus.
When organizers for the 2012 Olympics allowed themselves to imagine their worst public health fears, they always found one scenario particularly troubling: What if someone walked into a London hospital in the middle of the Games with an unusual infectious disease?
Their solution to this problem was a surveillance program unlike anything ever attempted for a global sporting event. The results were so successful that this system of targeting undiagnosed severe infectious diseases in hospitals was implemented by Britain’s National...
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