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Editor, Senior Moderator
J Infect Public Health
. 2023 Mar 28;S1876-0341(23)00107-7.
doi: 10.1016/j.jiph.2023.03.025. Online ahead of print.
COVID-19 infection risk assessment and management at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games: A scoping review
Michio Murakami[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Kenkichi Fujii[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Wataru Naito[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Masashi Kamo[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Masaaki Kitajima[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Tetsuo Yasutaka[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Seiya Imoto[SUP] 6 [/SUP]
Affiliations
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.
Keywords: COVID-19; Mass gatherings; Risk assessment; Risk management; Tokyo 2020 Olympic Paralympic Games.
. 2023 Mar 28;S1876-0341(23)00107-7.
doi: 10.1016/j.jiph.2023.03.025. Online ahead of print.
COVID-19 infection risk assessment and management at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games: A scoping review
Michio Murakami[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Kenkichi Fujii[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Wataru Naito[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Masashi Kamo[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Masaaki Kitajima[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Tetsuo Yasutaka[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Seiya Imoto[SUP] 6 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 37032255
- DOI: 10.1016/j.jiph.2023.03.025
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.
Keywords: COVID-19; Mass gatherings; Risk assessment; Risk management; Tokyo 2020 Olympic Paralympic Games.