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<\/div>In order to figure out how COVID-19 spreads among large groups, a team of German scientists decided to throw a big concert and, well, see what happens.<\/p>
The concert experiment, dubbed RESTART-19, will involve a cohort of 4,000 volunteers acting out three concert scenarios, each with a different degree of mandated distancing between audience members and safety measures, in order to see what actually helps limit disease’s spread.<\/p>
The idea is to host the kind of event that many are itching to get back to — and by identifying the specific risks of holding a concert, the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg scientists may be able to guide sports arenas<\/a> or other large venues as they try to reopen as well.<\/p> The scientists can’t just put 4,000 concertgoers at risk of catching a deadly disease: According to the project’s website<\/a>, all volunteers will be tested before and after the experiment, given a bottle of hand sanitizer, and will also have to wear masks the whole time.<\/p> But that’s the point of the whole thing. In each scenario — the third one will cut the audience size down to 2,000 — participants will be given a contact-tracing device<\/a> that tracks how close they come to other volunteers. Also, that free bottle of hand sanitizer will be a special fluorescent formulation, so the scientists can use a UV light to see how many people touched various surfaces.<\/p> Ironically, the scientists already seem to have a pretty good grip on how to prevent the coronavirus from spreading. Many of the safety measures that the scientists are imposing — like only allowing people to take off their mask to eat or drink when they’re outside — would also help keep people safe during a real pandemic-era concert.<\/p> The post German Scientists Are Hosting a Concert to Study How COVID-19 Spreads<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> See the rest here: In order to figure out how COVID-19 spreads among large groups, a team of German scientists decided to throw a big concert and,\u00a0well, see what happens. Continue reading
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