A new study shows COVID spikes after your arrival here
Crowds are major risks for coronavirus, no matter where they are.
Stadiums and sports events are among the expected expected reopinitions, post-pandemic and large sporting leagues such as the Major Baseball Group of the League and the NBA have announced projects to allow more spectators. At the same time, a new study found that the congested stages are connected to overvoltages ofCOVID-19 [Feminine Case nearby. Read on and to ensure your health and health of others, do not miss theseSigns that your illness is actually coronavirus in disguise.
COVID cases potentially result from NFL games in person
Inresearch submit toThe lancetTaranteed last month, scientistsAnalyzed the number of positive cases of counties where NFL teams played and around the counties where fans may have traveled further from the games. They found that infection rates spided two and three weeks after NFL's games played with more than 5,000 spectators.
"Evidence supports a large part of the fans' participation in the NFL Games, have led to episodic peaks" in COVID-19 cases, researchers wrote.
But Jeff Miller, Executive Vice President of NFL for Communications, Public Affairs and Politics,RecountThe New York Timesthat local public health experts did not find any "business clusters" in cities and states where 119 games were played in front of the fans and independent research conducted by the MIT Sports Lab found no increase in COVID business "within the appreciable time following games."
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The spikes could have other causes
The authors of theLancetStudy admits that their research suggest a correlation between NFL games and COVID peaks nearby; He can not prove that the first caused the first. The rise of cases could have been caused by the reopening of colleges,travelingl, or other social events. The Games could also encourage people to gather in homes and bars to watch on television, where infections could have occurred.
"The strength of these studies is that they show something, but correlations can only point out the possibilities, not causality," said Bruce Y. Lee, Executive Director of Research on Public Health Informatics of Research on the University of the City of New York Public Health School. "It's not just a football game and people come home. There are all these activities associated with the game."
The researchers stated that the study indicates that caution regarding stadium reopinitions is needed. "We do not say that NFL should not have opened to the fans," said Alex Piquero, a sociologist from the University of Miami and a co-author of the study. "But we must understand the implications of public health of the opening."
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How to survive this pandemic
As for yourself, do everything you can to prevent you from installing and spread-Covid-19 in the first place:Carry a face maskBe tested if you think you have coronavirus, avoid crowds (and bars and evenings of the house), practice social distance, do only run essential races, wash your hands regularly, disinfect frequently affected areas and to cross this healthiest pandemic, do not miss these35 places you are most likely to catch Covid.