Olympics doctor from Minnesota urges elite athletes to get shots July 25, 2021 8:44pm Text size Copy shortlink: We loved it, he said.
He left Mayo in January 2020 for his dream job and daunting circumstances, becoming chief medical officer of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee on the cusp of a pandemic that would postpone the 2020 Games.
On Friday, after participating in a USOPC news conference, he stood backstage, waxed nostalgic about Minneapolis and explained how he tried to educate American athletes, even those believing conspiracy theories, about vaccinations. Vaccination status is actually a very contentious issue in the United States, which is unfortunate, because if we look at it from a medical and scientific aspect, these are very, very safe vaccines, he said.
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