At least those in stadiums with crowds if a story in The Wall Street Journal leads to action by officials. It says some scientists think they way to prevent a return to exponential growth in Covid-19 infections is to avoid “superspreading events.”
In plain language, ban mass public events — sports events, church services, subway rides, weddings, trade shows, etc. — where hundreds of people are present. And require face masks to be worn.
The story notes that “mass infections tend to be more serious than those contracted in other circumstances, perhaps because of sustained exposure to a larger amount of virus.
It quotes Hendrik Streeck, a virologist with the University Hospital Bonn, Germany, as saying:
“Most cases globally, and especially most deaths, happened after superspreading events,” said who published the world-wide first study of a novel coronavirus superspreading event.