The first was during the Memorial Golf tournament, where John Rahm posted a comfortable lead going into the last round. He was playing lights-out golf, and appeared to have an insurmountable 6 or 7-shot lead. No symptoms were present, and he didn't need a ventilator or hospitalization following his round. Still, he was forced to withdraw from the tournament due to the PGA's COVID protocols.
The second that I'm following, is the cruise ship that just returned to the States with two COVID-positive passengers. Supposedly, all the passengers were vaccinated prior to leaving on the trip. What were the details around these two patients? What vaccine did they take, and where did they acquire the disease, assuming that their test results are accurate.
If these passengers somehow caught a whiff of coronavirus but their bodies were actively fighting it, does it really matter? Were these passengers symptomatic in any way? Did they have some variant of corona for which the vaccines were only partially effective?
Again, these are two events that keep COVID looming over us, at least in the media. Do governments continue to exploit it? I don't think the public will continue to tolerate restrictive measures, even masks, but I'm surprised people still tolerate, some even welcome, the masks as much as they do.
Thanks for the information.
I did not know that about the golfer. I caught something vague about a golfer but only in passing.
Was he “fully vaccinated?” Why so much Covid testing if so many people are vaxxed? Was he tested initially and then a couple days later too and was negative the first time?
How close to other people have to be to professional golfers when they play in tournaments, which are obviously outdoors? Do officials and caddies have to be less than six feet away?