Hello and welcome to the Osterholm update, a podcast on COVID-19 and other infectious diseases with Dr Michael Osterholm.

Dr Ostrom is an internationally recognized medical detective and director of the Center for

Infectious Disease Research and Policy or or Sidrapp at the University of Minnesota.

In this podcast, Dr. Ostrom draws on nearly 50 years of experience investigating

infectious disease outbreaks to provide straight talk on the latest infectious disease

and public health threats.

I'm Chris Dahl, reporter for Sidrapp News,

and I'm your host for these conversations.

Welcome back everyone to another episode of the Ostrom Update Podcast.

Around this time three years ago, the Tokyo Summer Olympics were underway,

held amid Japan's fifth COVID-19 wave in a city that was under a state of emergency.

Build as the Recovery Olympics, it was an Olympics unlike any other we've seen, with strict precautions and athletes performing in empty stadiums.

And as many of you will recall, those games took place a year later than scheduled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fast forward three years to the Paris Olympics,

and COVID is having a more limited impact

despite rising COVID activity around the world.

The arenas are packed with fans,

and you hardly see any masks.

But the World Health Organization reported this week that at least 40 athletes have tested positive,

though many are monitoring their symptoms and still performing in their bets.

COVID is still having an impact.

Adam's okay.

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