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With rising COVID-19 cases in Japan and the Tokyo Olympics less than 2 months away, canceling the Summer Games “may be the safest option,” according to a new editorial published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Several U.S. public health experts called for officials to protect Olympic athletes from COVID-19 and urged a risk-management approach to reduce potential spread of the virus.

“With less than 2 months until the Olympic torch is lit, canceling the Games may be the safest option,” according to the editorial written by Michael Osterholm and Lisa Brosseau from the University of Minnesota, Annie Sparrow from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, and Robert Harrison from the University of California at San Francisco.

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