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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
