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Emergency medicine experts warn first responders at the Tokyo Olympics could easily confuse heatstroke and coronavirus patients because the illnesses bear similar symptoms. While Games organizers have moved the marathon and race-walk events to the cooler northern city of Sapporo, most events are taking place in Tokyo between July 23…
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Emergency medicine experts warn first responders at the Tokyo Olympics could easily confuse heatstroke and coronavirus patients because the illnesses bear similar symptoms.
While Games organisers have moved the marathon and race-walk events to the cooler northern city of Sapporo, most events are taking place in Tokyo between July 23 and Aug. 8, the peak of the city s hot and humid summer. Medical resources in the hot summer are so limited, even in the normal summer without the Olympic Games, said Shoji Yokobori, chair of the Nippon Medical School Hospital s department of emergency and critical care medicine in Tokyo.