Here’s Who Should Be Avoiding Crowds Right Now
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In a time when a novel virus is still spreading quickly, a gathering of friends can now look more like a mob of disease vectors. Many of us are wondering, How many people is too many people to be around? The larger the crowd, after all, the greater the chance that someone in it will have the coronavirus.
Tokyo has its marathon for all but professional runners. (More than 37,000 runners took part last year.) The March meeting of the American Physical Society in Denver . (Organizers anticipated 10,000 attendees.) Workday a sales conference in Orlando, and Google and Facebook have also scrapped multiple events. (Last year, one of these, , drew 5,000 attendees.) Seemingly overnight, the coronavirus has people rethinking concerts, vacations, and even getting to work on public transportation.
