The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)が、IOCにダメ出ししてくれました！

これです。

以下、機械翻訳で大事なところを貼っておきます。
翻訳の下に引用元文章を貼ります。

＞ほとんどの国では 15 歳から 17 歳の青少年にワクチンを接種することができず、
15 歳未満の子供にワクチンを接種できる国はさらに少なくなっています。
その結果、体操選手、水泳選手、12 歳のダイバーを含む 10 代のアスリートには、
ワクチンが接種されません。
定期的な検査がない場合、参加者はオリンピック中に感染する可能性があり、
200カ国以上に帰国したときにリスクをもたらす可能性があります。

私たちは、オリンピック競技大会を続行するという IOC の決定は、
最高の科学的証拠によって知らされていないと考えています。
プレイブックは、アスリートが自分自身のリスクで参加することを維持し、
アスリートが直面するさまざまなレベルのリスクを区別することも、
体温検査やフェイスカバーなどの対策の限界を認識することもできていません。
同様に、IOC は他の大きなスポーツ イベントからの教訓に耳を傾けていません。

IOC のプレイブック は、科学的に厳密なリスク評価に基づいておらず、
曝露が発生する方法、曝露に寄与する要因、
およびどの参加者が最もリスクが高いかを考慮していません。
 
Pfizer and BioNTech have offered to donate vaccines for all Olympic athletes, but this offer does not ensure that all athletes will receive vaccines before the Olympics, since vaccine authorization and availability are lacking in more than 100 countries. Moreover, some athletes may choose not to be vaccinated because of worries about the effects of vaccination on their performance or ethical concerns about being prioritized ahead of health care workers and vulnerable people. Although several countries have vaccinated their athletes, adolescents between 15 and 17 years of age cannot be vaccinated in most countries, and children younger than 15 can be vaccinated in even fewer countries. As a result, few teenage athletes, including gymnasts, swimmers, and divers as young as 12, will be vaccinated. In the absence of regular testing, participants may become infected during the Olympics and pose a risk when they return home to more than 200 countries.

We believe the IOC’s determination to proceed with the Olympic Games is not informed by the best scientific evidence. The playbooks maintain that athletes participate at their own risk, while failing both to distinguish the various levels of risk faced by athletes and to recognize the limitations of measures such as temperature screenings and face coverings. Similarly, the IOC has not heeded lessons from other large sporting events. Many U.S.-based professional leagues, including the National Football League (NFL), the National Basketball Association, and the Women’s National Basketball Association, conducted successful seasons, but their protocols were rigorous and informed by an understanding of airborne transmission, asymptomatic spread, and the definition of close contacts.2 Preventive measures, adapted amid continuous expert review, included single hotel rooms for athletes, at least daily testing, and wearable technology for monitoring contacts, supported by rigorous contact tracing. Despite increasingly rigorous protocols, outbreaks of Covid-19 have caused multiple game cancellations. The World Men’s Handball Championship, held in Egypt in January 2021, showed the limits of housing even two people together when roommates were both forced out of games after one tested positive. In February, the Australian Open was challenged by hotel-driven exposures and two local outbreaks. In early May, the Indian Premier League cricket tournament was suspended in its third week.

The IOC’s playbooks1 are not built on scientifically rigorous risk assessment, and they fail to consider the ways in which exposure occurs, the factors that contribute to exposure, and which participants may be at highest risk. To be sure, most athletes are at low risk for serious health outcomes associated with Covid-19, but some Paralympic athletes could be in a higher-risk category. In addition, we believe the playbooks do not adequately protect the thousands of people — including trainers, volunteers, officials, and transport and hotel employees — whose work ensures the success of such a large event.