this is uncharted waters for everybody. nobody knows how go about this really. everyone is trying their best. i want to thank japan and the ioc for continuing on with this and trying their best to keep us all healthy and safe. taylor, hang on right there, because i do want to bring into the conversation ken belsin. do you kind of do you think they regret the decision at this point? i think they should. i think that the vaccines have proven in a wide number of settings to be effective. it ontario takes one person to spread the risk. i don t know how they would have done it with the number of countries, but it should have been a fairly low bar. they could have acquired more
years from now. but in the meantime we ll be rooting for jake and team usa against italy. thank you. thank you so much. thanks, ken. taylor crabb and ken belson. we have dr. irwin redlener. thank you for being here. should players like taylor who you hust just now who are asymptomatic be allowed to play? it s probably as good if not better than a covid asymptomatic player. well, it s a tough call. it s heartbreaking to hear a player who s been training all these years and this is the ultimate activity they want to do, and they ve been so prepped for physically and mentally. this is a blow.
participate in the olympics and go home. if they can t participate in that two-hour window, they re done. that s an unfortunate consequence. there s nothing they can do it. that s the way the olympics are structure. it raises the stakes. ken, really quickly we have so many issues with these games. we hear there s a typhoon headed toward tokyo. are these games just cursed? it s been an unfortunate cascade of events. they decided to hold the tournament in the sum eric and we just finished the rainy season here, and this is what s going to happen. the olympics back in 1964 was in october, which is actually one of the nicest months in the year. they ll elected not do that. this is what happens when you put it in this time period. taylor, one more question to you. any more final thoughts you want to share? now is the time. taylor, we just heard ken say,
vaccines on their own and distributed them much earlier in the process, and unfortunately we re now paying the price for it. ken, stephanie walked us through some of it. beach volleyball, they have at least four positive cases on their team. do you anticipate this happening more and more, and how ultimately could that impact the games? this is unusual. when everybody came back from around the country, it s natural to see a lot of cases at the beginning. the problem with the olympics is the events are happening in staggered format. if you re not ready in the first three or four days, that s it. there s no long season to recover. people will unfortunately i went to weight lifting, they have literally two hours to