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Japanese scientists warn that Tokyo Olympics could help spread COVID-19

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Dennis NormileScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation.A group of Japanese scientists, including some of the nation’s most senior advisers on the COVID-19 pandemic, are warning that allowing spectators at the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will help the virus spread domestically and internationally.

Their recommendation to bar or at least limit spectators, not yet formally published but described to ScienceInsider in general terms, represents an increasingly outspoken challenge from scientists to the government and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which remain adamant about going ahead with the games just 6 weeks before the 23 July opening ceremony.Japan and IOC have already barred tourists from.

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