Health experts fear Labor Day weekend could become COVID-19 super spreader event

Health experts warn similar long holiday weekends earlier in the year created the perfect storm for COVID-19 to spread.

WX)(AD LIB TOSS TO WX)(LAUREN AD LIB WX)PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY AREHEADING TO BEACHES, LAKES, ANDBARBECUES FOR THE LAST LONGWEEKEND OF THE SUMMER.BUT EXPERTS WARN... SIMILARHOLIDAYS EARLIER IN THE YEARSHOWED THEY CAN BE PERFECTSTORMS FOR CORONAVIRUSOUTBREAKS..

TOM FOREMAN REPORTS.:15-:20:21-:271:57-2:01BRACE YOURSELF FOR MORE SUPERSPREADER EVENTS.THAT’S THE WARNING FROM HEALTHOFFICIALS WHO FEAR, WIMILLIONS TRAVELING OVER THELABOR DAY HOLIDAY, THE PANDEMICCOULD SPIKE.JUST AS WE ENTER FALL WHEN THEFLU AND OTHER ILLNESSES MAY COMEINTO PLAY.Jennifer Nuzzo/Johns HopkinsCenter For Health Security:"We view Labor Day as a way totake the day off butunfortunately the virusdoesn’t."Dr. Anthony Fauci/Natl.Institute of Allergy &Infectious Diseases:"We don’t want to go into thwith another surge that we haveto turn around again so itreally is an important weekend."INFECTIONS SHOT UP IN SOMEPLACES AFTER MEMORIAL DAY ANDTHE FOURTH OF JULY TOO, DESPITEWARNINGS AGAINST BIG SOCIALGATHERINGS.LIKE THAT MOTORCYCLE RALLY INSOUTH DAKOTA WHICH PRODUCEDOZENS OF CASES, PRIVATE PARTIESIN MANY PLACES, AND NUMEROUSFAMILY EVENTS.LIKE THE WEDDING RECEPTIONEARLIER THIS YEAR THAT LEFT ANEW JERSEY WOMAN AND THREE OFHER CHILDREN DEAD.FOR ALL THAT, PRESIDENT TRUMPKEEPS MOCKING JOE BIDEN FORWEARING A MASK.President Donald Trump (no fontneeded):"Did you ever see a man thatlikes a mask as much as him?"STILL, HEALTH EXPERTS SAYIMAGINE AN OUTDOOR BARBECUE.THE MEDICAL JOURNAL, BMJ,CREATED THIS CHART SHOWING IFYOU ATTEND AN EVENT LIKE THAT,FOR A SHORT TIME WITH A MASK,YOUR RISK COULD BE RELATIVELYLOW.DEPENDING ON WHETHER PEOPLE ARESILENT, TALKING, OR SHOUTING ANDSINGINSTAY LONGER, IT GETS WORSE.TAKE OFF YOUR MASK A WHILE -WORSE STILL.AND WITHOUT A MASK FOR A LONGTIME - THE RISK EXPLODESESPECIALLY IF THE PARTY MOVESINDOOR(nats)SO IMAGES LIKE THESE ARE RAISINGALARM BELLS.HUNDREDS OF STUDENTS AT IOWSTATE SEEMINGLY IGNORING SAFETYPRECAUTIONS.Natsot/Reporter"Are you guys concerned aboutcoronavirus at all, or no?"Natsot/Students"No... No... Not really.

Ipersonally think it’s a hoax"I don’t think it’s a hoax, butI think if I were to get it, I’survive.THAT IS THE ATTITUDE DRIVING YETANOTHER WARNING THIS HOLIDAYFROM HEALTH EXPERTS WATCHINGCOLLEGE STUDENTS ON CAMPUSESEVERYWHEREDr. David Rubin/Children’sHospital Of Philadelphia"Putting them on airplanes andsending them home to theirparents doesn’t make sense."Tom Foreman/CNN"If people listen, the rewardcould be huge.

A new projectionfrom the University ofWashington says with universmasking the U.S. could snearly 300,000 deaths by the endof the year.

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