That's particularly important if you've had a serious recent exposure to Covid. Season ticketholders, this might be a bummer: Consistently attending sporting events increases your risk of Covid infection and transmission, because you're exposing yourself to crowds more frequently than the average American, Gonsenhauser says. Here's what experts want you to know: Wear a mask - even outdoors "If you want to minimize your risk as much as you can, going to a sporting event is not the right choice," he says.įortunately, you can take personal steps to make ballgames relatively safer, from a Covid transmission standpoint. Iahn Gonsenhauser, chief quality and patient safety officer at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. The festival required proof of vaccination to attend.īut given how transmissible Covid's delta variant is, your safest path for now is to skip those large events, says Dr. The Lollapalooza music festival in August, for example, brought hundreds of thousands of people to Chicago, and led to 203 Covid cases linked to the event - not enough to be deemed a superspreader event, according to local public health officials. It's tough to trace an uptick in cases back to one specific event like a sports game or concert. The country could remain "stuck in outbreak mode" because of large-scale gatherings like sports games driving transmission, Fauci told CNN. Outdoor activities are safer than indoor ones, according to the Centers for Disease Control, but crowded outdoor groups can still raise the potential for transmission due to sheer physical proximity - not to mention, any large amounts of cheering or screaming. Bringing tens of thousands of people together, even outdoors, prolongs the pandemic because it opens the door for the virus to spread.
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