Will it be safe to hold the Olympics in 2021?
Fixing a date for the Olympics is really one piece of a much larger question: When will things get back to normal? (Pixabay /)Follow all of PopSci’s COVID-19 coverage here, including travel advice, pregnancy concerns, and the latest findings on the virus itself. For global updates, see here.On March 24, the prime minister of Japan and the president of the International Olympic Committee announced that the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, which were supposed to begin on July 24, must be postponed until 2021."The leaders agreed that the Olympic Games in Tokyo could stand as a beacon of hope to the world during these troubled times and that the Olympic flame could become the light at the end of the tunnel in which the world finds itself at present," the IOC and the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee said in a joint statement.It’s hard to imagine what our society will look like more...