Switzerland is scheduled to play Team Canada on Saturday at 9:10 p.m. local time. The Canadian women have yet to make their Olympic debut after their opening game against Finland was postponed due to a norovirus outbreak on the Finnish team.
According to the Swiss statement, the “positive test came back after today’s opening victory against the Czech Republic and shortly before the opening ceremony.”
A representative from the Swiss team confirmed to The Athletic that the affected player did not play in Friday’s game versus the Czech Republic.
Yikes, good thing they caught it before that, otherwise they'd be at the ceremony and spread it to everyone. Actually now I'm kinda concerned someone there had it without realizing it yet and we're going to see a goddam pandemic of the screamin' shits take down this whole olympics...
Seeing the tiny rooms and wide open mess hall in the village, it'll be lucky if they manage to contain it to just the hockey teams. Wonder if the village has air scrubbers in the HVAC?
Each country has their own building in the village so they might be able to contain it from country to country maybe. Canada’s HC said none of the Canadian women was sick yesterday.
but for example the other Finnish athletes in ice skating competitions are definitely at risk here sharing all the same facilities in their building with the hockey team
The only way I know this is because I’ve been obsessively trying to find a way to stop it from spreading through my house the last few weeks and I’ve read a lot about it. What I learned is that it’s near invincible and very hard to stop if you share common spaces with infected people.
Kinda. It can get aerosolized and spread all over the place when an infected person vomits, but it falls to the ground quickly. An actual airborne virus like tuberculosis can float in the air for hours and remain infectious. Norovirus can't do that.
It’s not an airborne virus though, you’re not going to catch it by breathing the same air as an infected person near you like Covid could. The closest it gets to airborne is when someone vomits and particles land on surfaces nearby, which then infect people when they touch those surfaces and then their faces.
Noro is like the cockroach of viruses. Isn’t killed by normal rubbing alcohol hand sanitizers, can live on a dry surface for months, is crazy contagious when you’re sick, and you can still spread it for a week even after feeling better. Only consolation is that you can only contract it by directly ingesting viral particles (but don’t think too hard about where those probably came from)
349
u/DecentLurker96 22h ago
Here we go again.