(Miami Herald) One of the worst activities you can do in the middle of a pandemic is attend a large gathering with thousands of attendees — but researchers in Germany want people to do just that.
It’s not for recreation: The goal is to examine just how dangerous those events really are, especially as parts of the world prepare to return to normalcy.
For a project called “RESTART-19,” scientists with the University Medical Center Halle (Saale) plan on throwing a concert with 4,000 fans and a German music artist in an indoor arena to simulate how people move, gather and spread potentially coronavirus-infected germs.