We probably shouldn't need another reminder at this point, but given the spike of COVID cases occurring after the holidays, which could very much have had to do with larger-than-usual indoor groupings, a reminder certainly can't hurt.
And that's what Dr. Anthony Fauci gave us on TV interviews, stressing that we don't need a Super Bowl party to turn 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.
If the two teams playing in the Super Bowl can barely avert disaster involving the coronavirus — 20 players were scheduled to receive haircuts from a barber who tested positive — then it's highly unlikely that you can be sure about whoever you were thinking of inviting to a Super Bowl get-together.
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Though the current daily change in cases isn't at the peak levels it once was back in early-mid December (following Thanksgiving) or after Christmas and New Year's, cases are still sprouting up at a furious pace. As of February 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 (via The New York Times).
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