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Japan Denies Planning to Vaxx Olympians Ahead of Health Workers After Report Provokes Fury

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After a report about the effort provoked entirely justifiable anger on social media, the government distanced itself from it.

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If the Japanese government is trying to make the Tokyo Olympics even more wildly unpopular than it already is, this would be the perfect way to do it.

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