(RADIO.COM Sports) Dr. Anthony Fauci is advising against people attending Super Bowl parties this Sunday, cautioning that the country shouldn't risk turning it into a superspreading event.
"You don't want parties with people that you haven't had much contact with," Fauci said on NBC's "Today" show, via the Associated Press. "You just don't know if they're infected, so as difficult as that is, at least this time around, just lay low and cool it."
He added, more concretely, that people should "absolutely not" host or attend any Super Bowl parties.
Though the current daily change in cases isn't at the peak levels it once was back in early to mid-December (following Thanksgiving) or after Christmas and New Year's, cases are still sprouting up at a furious pace. As of Feb. 3, the seven-day average in new cases is 136,442 Americans. The total is at 26.6 million Americans, 451,000 of which have died as a result of the disease, according to the New York Times.
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