The risk of COVID-19 transmission upon return to sport: a systematic review.

Lori Jia William H Huffman Antonio Cusano David P Trofa Xinning LiJohn D KellyRobert L Parisien

Published in: The Physician and sportsmedicine (2022)

Rigorous preventive and surveillance measures can mitigate the risk of COVID-19 transmission in athletes upon RTS. However, the heterogeneity of RTS playing conditions, availability of COVID-19 resources, rise of unforeseen novel variants, and undetermined long-term impact of vaccination on athletes remain a challenge to safe and effective RTS in the era of COVID-19.

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