Participants wearing FFP2 protective face masks watch singer Tim Bendzko perform in the RESTART-19 Covid transmission risk assessment study in a concert setting at an indoor arena during the coronavirus pandemic on AUG. 22, 2020 in Leipzig, Germany.
This performance, held Aug. 22 at the Quarterback Immobilien Arena in Leipzig, Germany, was not a case of a music venue flouting public health concerns in order to get back to business. All the fans were volunteers, part of Restart-19, a study to see if and how big cultural and sporting events can be held safely in the era of COVID-19.
“At the moment we have no good data about how people behave at concerts or other big indoor events,” says Michael Gekle, dean at the University Medical Center of Halle, which organized Restart-19. “The purpose of this experiment is to get scientific evidence to help make reliable predictions as to the risk of additional infections related to such an event.”
Ahead of the study, critics were quick to dismiss its potential findings, arguing the experiment would not reflect real-world conditions. “Of course we would have liked to do an experiment where the arena was full and people were drinking alcohol, but the health authorities wouldn’t allow it,” says Gekle. “This is the first step.”
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