{"id":190120,"date":"2021-03-04T17:29:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T22:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=190120"},"modified":"2021-03-04T17:29:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T22:29:42","slug":"super-bowl-celebrations-were-not-covid-19-super-spreader-events-health-officials-determine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/super-bowl-celebrations-were-not-covid-19-super-spreader-events-health-officials-determine\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl Celebrations Were Not COVID-19 Super Spreader Events, Health Officials Determine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsuper-bowl-celebrations-were-not-covid-19-super-spreader-events-health-officials-determine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=190120&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1231052063.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Despite warnings that Super Bowl 55 celebrations in Tampa, Florida, would lead to a massive spike in new COVID-19 cases, Hillsborough County health officials determined that the celebrations resulted in just a few dozen cases.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes after media outlets spent the days after the Super Bowl, in which Tampa Bay defeated Kansas City, insisting that Super Bowl parties were \u201csuper spreader\u201d events.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/super-bowl-2021-nfl-prevent-super-spreader-covid19-event\/\">warned<\/a> at the time that the NFL was taking precautions to avoid a massive spread of the coronavirus, though it quoted NFL executive Peter O\u2019Reilly and Tampa Mayor Jane Castor expressing confidence. O\u2019Reilly told the outlet that there\u2019s \u201cbeen no cluster spread coming out of any of those games\u201d that had fans in the stadiums earlier in the season. The outlet also quoted Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University\u2019s School of Public Health, warning people not to have large indoor gatherings.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nfl-kansas-city-super-bowl-football-coronavirus-pandemic-59c5204b07d474a60cb0acf4ef9e828e\">reported<\/a> that health officials were \u201cpleading,\u201d with people not to throw parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m worried about Super Bowl Sunday, quite honestly. People gather, they watch games together. We\u2019ve seen outbreaks already from football parties,\u201d said Rochelle Walensky, President Joe Biden\u2019s pick to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. \u201cSo, I really do think that we need to watch this and be careful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times, ABC, NBC, and others published similar articles.<\/p>\n<p>But an investigation into the concerns revealed they were unwarranted. USA Today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/super-bowl\/2021\/03\/03\/super-bowl-55-not-covid-19-super-spreader-tampa\/6905658002\/\">reported<\/a> that health officials found just 57 total COVID-19 cases resulting from official events celebrating Super Bowl 55.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a press conference\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WFLANewsChannel8\/videos\/256984176143364\">that was streamed on WFLA<\/a>, a local NBC affiliate, Hillsborough County chief\u00a0epidemiologist Michael Wiese said there were 53 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the state of Florida linked to the Super Bowl, while\u00a0four out-of-state cases were tracked to the event,\u201d the outlet reported. \u201cWiese did say, however, that the county saw an increase in the positivity rate in the weeks following the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis information, along with the low numbers that were reported, really leads to the conclusion that\u00a0transmission that was occurring after the Super Bowl was the family get-togethers, the house-hold parties, the bars and restaurants that had unofficial gatherings and events associated with the Super Bowl,\u201d\u00a0Wiese said at the press conference. \u201cWhile we didn\u2019t really have a lot that was associated directly with the Super Bowl, we do know that the community kind of celebrated and got together in response to the events, which did show some increase in the transmission during the weeks afterward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rob Higgins, executive director of the Tampa Bay Sports Commission, said part of the reason the \u201cSuper Bowl was not a super-spreader\u201d was because many events that would have been held indoors were turned into outdoor events where masks were worn and social distancing was enforced.<\/p>\n<p>The Tampa Bay Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/health\/2021\/03\/03\/tampas-super-bowl-was-not-a-coronavirus-super-spreader-officials-say\/\">reported<\/a> that more cases may have been linked to unofficial events, however. The evidence for this comes from a slight increase in Hillsborough County\u2019s positivity rate in the weeks after the Super Bowl, yet the increase is far from indicative of some kind of massive spread.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite warnings that Super Bowl 55 celebrations in Tampa, Florida, would lead to a massive spike in new COVID-19 cases, Hillsborough County health officials determined that the celebrations resulted in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274780,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1231052063.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Super Bowl Celebrations Were Not COVID-19 Super Spreader Events, Health Officials Determine","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1231052063.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Super Bowl Celebrations Were Not COVID-19 Super Spreader Events, Health Officials Determine","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}