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Mass events and Covid. Research shows poor correlation

According to Sky News, a new report based on the study of several mass events that took place in the UK. with the participation of a very large number of people gathered, it did not detect the birth of "substantial outbreaks" of COVID-19.

Among the events tested there was, for example, an evening in a large nightclub in Liverpool.


The combined events were attended by 58,000 people, resulting in just 28 known cases, according to the Event Research Program (ERP). Of the 28 cases, 11 were identified as "potentially infectious during an event", while a further 17 were marked as "potentially infected during or around the time of the event".

For example, the Brit Awards, which had an audience of 3,500, had no related cases of COVID-19. No word on the vaccination status of the participants.


No cases have been detected to the British, despite its audience of 3,500 (via Sky News)
Here is a description of the individual events and related COVID cases detected (via Sky News):

  • Liverpool's Circus Nightclub hosted nearly 7,000 people in two nights and recorded 10 cases
  • The World Snooker Championship, which welcomed more than 10,000 in 17 days, recorded six cases
  • The Brit Awards, which hosted 3,500 music fans at London's O2 arena, have not recorded any cases
  • The semi-final and final of the FA Cup and the final of the Carabao Cup recorded a combined total of eight cases out of nearly 30,000 participants
  • An outdoor pilot festival at Liverpool's Sefton Park, attended by more than 6,000 people, has recorded two cases.
  • The Reunion 5k race in Kempton Park, Surrey recorded two cases out of 2,000 people present.

Events were monitored via cameras and using Wi-Fi data, while participants were also asked to take a series of tests.

Lead program advisors, Nicholas Hytner and David Ross, were careful to warn that the report "does not provide conclusive public health recommendations on the reopening of events at this stage" and added that the studies were conducted when the COVID outbreaks -19 were low.

"Future public health measures must adapt to the prevailing levels and patterns of the virus," they said. This is a kind of indirect admission that mass events are to be avoided, but when there are epidemic outbursts. Otherwise they are low risk


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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/146350-2/ on Sun, 27 Jun 2021 07:00:11 +0000.