LYV - Coronavirus: Health Experts Say That Crowded Events Need to Stay Closed Until the Fall of 2021
The COVID-19 lockdowns may start to phase out fairly soon, but some events will need to stay closed for quite some time. According to a panel of five public health experts assembled by The New York Times over the weekend, huge events like concerts, industry conferences, and sporting events with packed stadiums need to stay closed until the fall of 2021.
Zeke Emanuel, director of the Healthcare Transformation Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, said the economy needs to be restarted in stages. Less-crowded gatherings such as office work in cubicles can be relaunched fairly quickly, but the same isn't true for more crowded events.
"Larger gatherings -- conferences, concerts, sporting events -- when people say they're going to reschedule this conference or graduation event for October 2020, I have no idea how they think that's a plausible possibility," Emanuel said. "Realistically we're talking fall 2021 at the earliest."