Posted on 09/12/2021 3:55:15 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
More than 65,000 fans packed a stadium in Tampa to watch Tom Brady lead the Buccaneers to a win in the NFL’s season opener, just hours after President Joe Biden announced a sweeping new plan to slow the latest COVID-19 surge.
Most people at the open-air stadium Thursday night didn’t wear masks. There was no vaccine requirement for fans, something Biden has urged sports and entertainment venues to impose. Many other football stadiums are taking a similarly lax approach to pandemic measures this fall, and that worries health experts.
This fall’s crowded college and professional football stadiums could create ripe conditions for COVID-19 to spread among unvaccinated fans, experts say.
The risk of catching or passing a virus that has infected more than 40 million people in the United States will depend on where the stadium is and whether the game is outdoors, among other factors.
HOW RISKY ARE STADIUMS?
It’s difficult to predict how many COVID-19 cases might develop from a single event. That depends partly on infection rates where the venue is located and how many people are vaccinated.
The highly contagious delta variant has triggered a surge in infections this summer that just recently started to taper. The seven-day rolling average for daily new cases in the U.S. sits at about 150,000 after starting September above 167,000, according to Johns Hopkins University.
At those rates, it is “basically a certainty” that there will be at least one infected person at any gathering of a thousand people, epidemiologist Ryan Demmer said.
Many football stadiums seat 60,000 fans or more.
“At any sort of large event like at a football stadium, without question there will be many infected people there,” said Demmer of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
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Attendees had to show proof of shots or negative test:
And wear masks indoors:
And it was claimed that it wouldn’t be a super spreader event:
Don’t know what the outcome was; did cases go up in Chicago afterwards?
ARROWHEAD STADIUM TODAY……. 78,000 FANS no masks.
Chiefs did win.
Chants of Fuck Biden at the beginning of the 3rd quarter.
Conservatives make terrible street fighters. I’ll cheer wildly if they close every arena down in every city. With that sports should vanish.
New York Giants fans had it right. They streamed out of MetLife Stadium just as soon as the Broncos went ahead 27-7. No need to expose yourself to maskless superspreaders when your team is behind by 20 points.
Kids in school are driving up the numbers...they going crazy testing
“How risky are stadiums”? Well if you go my any media it’ll be about as risky as just breathing
Lol
Somebody please explain to me, who the heck is still getting tested?
Get it all done now so Covid is done by thanksgiving .
Herd immunity .
Do you really believe that the chi-com virus is anything more than a virus?
Why no mask for the thousands of strands of the flu virus or the common cold?
You never mention that the annual flu is more deadly for young people {18 and under} than the chi-com virus, why not?
The inflation of the number of deaths from/with the chi-com virus, is testament to it's being used as a control tool, and you have bought into the narrative.
SAD.
Bet they’re really freaked about FJB...
I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, I thought we were for boycotting the NFL. On the other hand, it’s good to see packed stadiums again, especially people without masks.
Everything I needed to know about COVID crowds was when governors and other politicos marched maskless at BLM rallies last year.
And then loaded onto busses and transported to cities all over the country by the Federal gubmint. Talk about your super spreader event!
The DEEP STATE GUMBERMINT can't have lockdowns, vaxxes vaccine passsports followed by CCP style SOCIAL CREDIT SCORES without super spreader events organized by hacks like the Biden Admin.
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