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COVID-19 infection risk assessment and management at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games: A scoping review

Authors :
Michio Murakami
Kenkichi Fujii
Wataru Naito
Masashi Kamo
Masaaki Kitajima
Tetsuo Yasutaka
Seiya Imoto
Source :
Journal of Infection and Public Health, Vol 17, Iss , Pp 18-26 (2024)
Publication Year :
2024
Publisher :
Elsevier, 2024.

Abstract

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games was one of the largest international mass-gathering events held after the beginning of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In this scoping review, we extracted papers discussing COVID-19 risk assessment or management at the Tokyo 2020 Games to determine the nature of studies that were conducted. Among the 75 papers obtained from two search engines (PubMed and ScienceDirect) and four papers collected from hand-searches, 30 papers were extracted. Only eight papers performed both COVID-19 prior risk assessment and quantitative evaluation of effectiveness measures, highlighting the importance of rapid, solution-focused risk assessment. Furthermore, this review revealed that the findings regarding the spread of COVID-19 infection to citizens in the host country were inconsistent depending on the assessment methods and that assessments of the spread of infection outside the host country were lacking.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
18760341
Volume :
17
Issue :
18-26
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Journal of Infection and Public Health
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.3c77680a700f4ceb996f06be1b3968bd
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2023.03.025