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The Beijing Winter Olympics kicks off this week in a much different pandemic context than the Tokyo Summer Olympics six months ago. Former Olympian and public health expert Dr. Tara Kirk Sell returns to the podcast to talk with Stephanie Desmon about what we know about how omicron and China’s Zero COVID policy will likely make this Olympics much more complicated, the limitations of trying to maintain an Olympic bubble, and the dangerous potential for outbreaks given China’s relatively low population immunity.