Here is a list of eligible players for the 3 x3 team. Could they have made the replacement in Japan?
I have not seen evidence that the polio vaccine was more effective that the Covid vaccines. But I do not remember anyone just choosing not to get the polio vaccines. I am sure there were some but the published data claims 90% effectiveness with two doses and 99% with three. Covid 19 jabs from Moderna or Pfizer are proving 90 % effective with two doses. However, the more people remain unvaccinated, the greater the spread of variant strains.
The Japanese people wanted the Olympics cancelled. It's going on because the Olympic organization was going to lose billions if cancelled.
Sorry to hear about your granddaughter. My youngest grandson just tested positive for the virus. It has changed many lives.
While I do not know which vaccine of the two was more effective, I do remember vividly those in my community that suffered polio.
I lived in the Pittsburgh, Pa area as a child, and we were given the Salk vaccine in first grade as part of the early trials The nuns did not ask if you would like to get it, they just lined us up in the hall. I remember hearing about the iron lung, and although I was not sure what it was, I was darn sure it was no fun!
If you lived during that time and saw people in the iron lung, you would have gotten the vaccine. For people who got polio, the iron lung breathed for them. My parents never hesitated having me vaccinated.
Actually, the Covid vaccines are just as effective as those for Polio. Almost no one is dying after being vaccinated. There is also no comparison between the two diseases; one maims and the other kills.
When the polio vaccine became available, my mom rushed me to the Doc Woodward’s office for shots. Weeks later the line was hundreds of kids long at my junior high as the vaccine was administered to every kid. Of course, Colorado was a polio hot spot. The movie theater removed aisle seats to accommodate wheelchairs. I would visit friends who spent at least the evening in an iron lung, if not 24/7, usually set up in living room as it was too difficult to get the machine into bedrooms in our modest homes. My smallpox vaccine scar has faded with the passage of time. My kid didn’t need one because everyone in my generation did. We beat polio, we beat smallpox. We can beat Covid, yet it more than lingers because so many refuse to do what we did for polio and smallpox.
Keep in mind it though that “95% effective“ just means that 95% of vaccinated people will not have a debilitating version of the disease. It does not mean that they are incapable of getting it or transmitting it.
