![]() 1 or so,” Dawson said, he tested negative. Bill Schaffner, a Vanderbilt infectious disease expert, told Yahoo Sports in December that they were going to “disqualify some people for no good reason.” With every passing day, Dawson increasingly wondered whether he might be one of those people. The protocols that relied exclusively on them were at best overly strict, and at worst unscientific. They can return positives for weeks, if not months, after initial infection. His problem was the sensitivity of PCR tests. ![]() The positives would send him to the floor, crying. Dawson said he took 45 tests over the past three weeks, in search of those two consecutive negatives, but the results would fluctuate, negative then positive again. Every Games participant needed at least two negative PCR tests to enter China, with no exemptions. ![]() And Beijing’s strict COVID protocols became obstacles. The Olympics, at the time, were still weeks away. Ever since he began skating at age 10, he’d “looked at Olympians as superheroes.” But not long after becoming one - three weeks ago, Dawson said - he tested positive for COVID. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP) China’s strict protocolsĭawson’s saga began last month in Milwaukee, where he qualified for the Games at U.S. ![]() Staff dressed in COVID-19 safety gear direct people as they make their way through the first steps of customs, COVID-19 testing and accreditations upon arriving at the airport for the Beijing Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, on Monday Jan.
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