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bkydx t1_ixv0nbt wrote

Reply to comment by vtman7 in A study of NFL games during the 2020 season suggests a link between attendance and COVID spikes in surrounding counties 14 and 21 days later. The inferred connection held strongest for games attended by 20,000-plus fans by Wagamaga

Because it didn't spread outdoors.

Key Points.

Data is very cherry picked and anything that didn't fit their agenda was left out.

Sometimes there were no spikes from huge attendances.

5000 or less attendance had no spikes.

All Spikes and data collected was at the start of the current wave where cases were increasing drastically before the NFL games took place.

20000 people at an outdoor football game is a drop in the bucket compared to 50,000,000 students being crammed poorly ventilated classrooms daily.

Over 1000 NFL games but lets only pick the 270 that occurred at the beginning of a Covid mutation that was going to have a huge Wave regardless and attribute 100% of it to the NFL.

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cyberentomology t1_ixv2ns1 wrote

It would also be interesting to compare enclosed stadiums vs outdoor, but there may not be enough data here.

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bkydx t1_ixv6jmo wrote

Enclosed stadiums still have sufficient fresh air and with decent masking in indoor areas they should be very low risk but higher then outdoors which is almost a zero.

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