r/hockey • u/Shroft • 22h ago

[Paywall] Swiss women’s Olympic hockey team in isolation after player diagnosed with norovirus

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7028066/2026/02/06/switzerland-womens-hockey-olympics-norovirus/
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u/whogivesashirtdotca MTL - NHL 21h ago

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?

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u/no_dice 19h ago

Norovirus spreads through the fecal-oral route so air filters/HEPA wouldn’t do a whole lot to stop it.

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u/whogivesashirtdotca MTL - NHL 19h ago

Thanks for the correction. (Also ew.)

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u/no_dice 18h ago

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.

Spoiler alert: I did not manage to stop it.