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60th birthday bash check ought allof the protocol boxes. >> thanks for having me. nice to be here. this sounds to me like they checked all the boxes. you know, this virus doesn't care about what party you belong to, doesn't care about who you are, just cares about being able to spread in situations where people are indoors, unmasked, and in particular people who are unvaccinated. as you said, i don't know who was vaccinated or who wasn't but these protocols that were in place are so important. they had it outdoors. they limited capacity. they out masks to -- handed out masks to people. they al...

>> was there anything that they could have done differently, do you think to prevent this outbreak? >> well, again, when you look at the protocol and the testing protocol, i don't know how you do anything differently. i think maybe educating the kids or maybe the parents educating the kids at home about the importance of speaking up if you have symptoms might have helped. again, a child could be -- could have no symptoms whatsoever and be spreading the virus. but maybe educating the children a little bit. >> and did you say was everybody wearing masks when they were inside? >> the protocol is ...

Alison. quite incredible. >> i feel his excitement. it really was a busy sunday. but another reminder about the very clear and present reality of covid-19 at these games, what can you tell us? >> yeah, it's important. we do have to keep reflecting on this because it's ever present, alison. the covid-19 and the reality of it. once again, another athlete has been impacted by the ongoing global coronavirus. in this case it's the american golfing superstar, a huge name in the world of golf, bryson dechambeau. according to a statement from usa golf, the 27-year-old californian testing positive for ...

Olympian, fully vaccinated, two doses of the vaccine, the chances that they could transmit the virus, which is the key question here appears to be extremely low. some studies suggest less than .1%. so we really need to think twice. i have a lot of sympathy for these olympians that are asymptomatic, otherwise healthy, fully vaccinated that they're being kept out of competition. now we know things we didn't know six months ago. pcr tests come with a second result that's called the cycle threshold which can give a sense if somebody's infectious to others versus not. we could potentially clear the...

Co—creator of the astrazeneca vaccine. and her colleagues, andrew pollard was there as well. they looked like they were not expecting that. ., . , , looked like they were not expecting that. ., ., , , ., ., that. the organisers here wanted to make a statement, _ that. the organisers here wanted to make a statement, first _ that. the organisers here wanted to make a statement, first of - that. the organisers here wanted to| make a statement, first of gratitude but also saying in that speech that happened before that centre court match between djokovic and raper that this grand slam wouldn't b...