{"id":7438,"date":"2024-08-27T14:28:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T19:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7438"},"modified":"2024-08-27T14:28:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T19:28:16","slug":"an-olympic-sized-miss-in-managing-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/08\/27\/an-olympic-sized-miss-in-managing-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"An Olympic-Sized Miss in Managing COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/second-opinions\/111621?xid=nl_secondopinion_2024-08-27&amp;mh=07f73d99b2b546c079b0b5a2312d87b1\">MedPageToday<\/a> Noah Lyles&#8217; stunning comeback to win the men&#8217;s 100-meter dash and subsequent crowning as the &#8220;world&#8217;s fastest man&#8221; at the 2024 Olympics was meant to be the crowning moment of this Games. With an anticipated triumph in his signature event &#8212; the 200 meters &#8212; the American sprinter was poised to complete an extraordinary and historic double-gold achievement. Instead, the image many will remember is of a COVID-infected and asthmatic Lyles collapsing on the track, struggling for breath before being taken away in a wheelchair after placing third in the race. As an asthmatic myself, it was heartbreaking to watch, but this disappointing turn of events is emblematic of a larger, more troubling issue: the complete mismanagement of COVID-19 at the Olympics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/second-opinions\/111621?xid=nl_secondopinion_2024-08-27&amp;mh=07f73d99b2b546c079b0b5a2312d87b1\">Continue reading<\/a><br><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPageToday Noah Lyles&#8217; stunning comeback to win the men&#8217;s 100-meter dash and subsequent crowning as the &#8220;world&#8217;s fastest man&#8221; at the 2024 Olympics was meant to be the crowning moment of this Games. With an anticipated triumph in his signature event &#8212; the 200 meters &#8212; the American sprinter was poised to complete an extraordinary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychological-and-sociological-impact"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7439,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7438\/revisions\/7439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}