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Sports & the 2nd wave of Covid-19

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Ottawa Public Health explains how the sports practice turned into a COVID-19 super spreader event.

• - The index case was an asymptomatic person with COVID-19 who attended a team practice (they did not know they were infected)
• - Later, other asymptomatic people with COVID-19 and one symptomatic person with COVID-19 attended practice (none knew they were infected)
• - Masks were not consistently worn during practice
• - People carpooled to practices with members from outside their household
• - People mingled outside practices without proper mask use or physical distancing
• - Many interconnections: Coaches who coached multiple teams and practices included players from different teams

Sport's practice in Ottawa led to 89 COVID-19 cases and forced hundreds to self-isolate

OTTHEALTH.CA