CRSSD Music Festival, which was held March 7-8 in San Diego, happened right on the cusp of most festivals and events in the next few months cancelling or postponing due to COVID-19. At the time, no cases had been identified in San Diego County and Dr. Wilma Wooten, the county’s public health officer, said she didn’t feel cancelling or postponing was yet necessary for CRSSD.
However, Dr. Eric McDonald, medical director of the county’s epidemiology and immunization services branch, in the process of investigating clusters among the first 55 identified cases of COVID-19, found that two people with known COVID-19 did attend the event.
Writes San Diego Tribune, “One was known to have traveled to a country where a coronavirus outbreak is ongoing while the second got sick after attending the event, he said. Given that it takes three to five days for symptoms to appear after infection, the executive said it is likely that the infection occurred before the event, not during it.”
Though the festival instituted cleanliness practices such as extra hand sanitizing stations and cashless bars, it’s impossible to know how many other attendees these two came into contact with.
This is exactly what social distancing and cancellation/postponement of events aims to address, is random people out in the wild who might be carrying the virus without knowledge passing it on to others.
San Diego County has a total of 60 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of Tuesday.
Photo via CRSSD Festival/FLG
This article was first published on Your EDM. Source: Two People Who Attended CRSSD Test Positive For COVID-19
from EDM News – Your EDM https://ift.tt/3a4y7Qm
SUBSCRIBE TO YOUREDM CHANNEL TODAY.
YOUR EDM provides the inside scoop on the EDM industry.
Subscribe and go DEEP inside the electronic scene.
SPONSORS
Sourced by actual house heads who have supported the EDM scene, music, culture, and vibe collectively for decades Always dedicated to showing love and support for the fellow artists, promoters, and supporters.
House Music is the soul survivor of a murdered disco dynasty. A dynasty that brought freedom of experession through dance and fashion. A definite anti-establishment media HIT job programmed and pushed thru corporate radio. - Jason Ring
ConversionConversion EmoticonEmoticon