“It has all the elements of what we warn people about,” said Anne Rimoin, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “People yelling and screaming, chanting, exerting themselves all of those things provide opportunity for the virus to spread, and this virus takes those opportunities.”
“If you wanted to organize an event to maximize the spread of covid it would be difficult to find one better than the one we witnessed yesterday,” said Jonathan Fielding, a professor at the schools of Public Health and Medicine at UCLA. “You have the drivers of spreading at a time when we are bearing the heaviest burden of this terrible virus and terrible pandemic.”