A positive COVID test may have kept Bryson DeChambeau from competing for a gold medal at the Olympics in Tokyo, but that doesn’t mean he …
A positive COVID test may have kept Bryson DeChambeau from competing for a gold medal at the Olympics in Tokyo, but that doesn’t mean he would have gone about anything differently. “The vaccine doesn’t necessarily prevent it from happening,” DeChambeau told a few reporters after his nine-hole pro-am round at TPC Southwind on Wednesday. DeChambeau also suggested that he was abstaining from the vaccine to avoid taking it from someone else, even though there isn’t a shortage of vaccines in the United States and more than 70% of U.S. adults have already received at least one dose. “I don’t think taking the vaccine away from someone who needs it is a good thing,” he said. “My dad is a perfect example. He got it [the vaccine] early on because he’s a diabetic. People like that need to get it. My mom got it. I don’t want to take away that ability.” “Now as time goes on, if it [the vaccine] is mainstream, really, really mainstream, then yeah,” DeChambeau said. The Centers for Disease Control director has said that 97% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients have not been vaccinated. DeChambeau reportedly tested positive on July 23 as part of Olympic protocols in which three negative COVID tests in consecutive days were required in order to fly to Tokyo.
