Posted on 08/12/2023 7:12:48 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
New pro sports teams bring more than a rooting interest to American cities — they also sparked a spike in flu deaths, according to a new study.
Flu mortality jumped as much as nearly 25% in cities that picked up new sports franchises in baseball, basketball, football or hockey, economists at the West Virginia University found. “It’s important for sports fans to realize that there is some additional risk that they’re taking, now that we’re all acutely aware of airborne virus transmission or respiratory virus transmission…when they decide to go to a sporting event,” Brad Humphreys, a WVU economics professor and co-author of the study published in the journal Sports Economic Review, told The Post.
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Life isn’t only risky: It is fatal.
Gay soccer teams bring more fagpox
They looked only at NHL (worst), NFL, NBA, MLB (least bad).
1962-2016 so it was all before the pandemic.
I couldn’t tell if it was 80 deaths per 100k going up to nearly 100 per 100k or 80 deaths for the entire city or metro area going up to nearly 100.
It’s a small number in any case.
Thanks.
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