the second question is, how effective is it? that should really drive the decision making. i expect an authorization but i m not convinced we ll have one. we will really want to look at the evidence very carefully. reporter: friday, the winter olympics begin in a covid bubble. two big cheeses from the necks games, paris 24, just tested positive before taking off for beijing. so didn t take off. the veteran bobsledder alanna taylor was supposed the carry the flag but just tested positive. reporter: there are more than 60 million eligible americans who have not had a single vaccine shot. so what kind of risk are they taking by that choice? for most it is a choice. new figures from the cdc this morning, they show if you are unvaccinated and catch covid-19, you are nearly 100 times more
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separated by barriers. but our sources in china live with much greater risk. like human rights activists, a prominent critic of the communist party speaking to me from house arrest, he said authorities are frightened he might stage a demonstration during the olympics while the world is watching. he tells me he ll be locked in for months, they ve threatened to stop him from seeing his elderly mother if he doesn t comply. he s used to getting a knock on the door from police who he said have visited him four times in the past eight days. the security of the closed loop keeping people safe from covid as more cases are registered among olympic personnel. but also keeping journalists from telling their stories. and selena, you re inside the strict covid bubble with the olympic athletes. what is that like? reporter: yeah, jake, it is been surreal, from the minute i stepped off the airline in
chinese tennis star peng shuai is announcing she s retiring saying it would be improbable to return to her sport. just before the announcement, there was this rare very controlled interview she did with french journalists in beijing. and last year she accused a top communist party official with assault and then disappeared from public view. she now said the whole thing is a misunderstanding. what more did she tell the french journalists? hey, there victor and alisyn, this is a highly anticipated meeting over the weekend in the so-called close loop, that is the olympic covid bubble, peng shuai meeting with thomas bach, the president of the international olympic committee. but censorship questions are still swirling. ioc not will to provide images
the restrictive but successful covid bubble, and the embarrassing doping scandal surrounding russia s camilla valieva. the head of the u.s. olympic and para-olympic committee sarah hirschland told us the whole mess, ticked her off. those in an entourage, those who may be responsible for enabling or in fact the doping itself need to be held to a very, very high standard and held accountable when things are not right. reporter: following the challenges of tokyo and here in beijing, the athletes and olympic organizers are cautiously hopeful that the pandemic will no longer cast such a dark and restrictive shadow. and the celebration of sport can maybe, maybe return to normal. jamie yuccas, cbs news, beijing. duncan: hundreds of students at penn state took to the dance floor in a 46-hour marathon, the 50th anniversary of the event
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