With the college-football season now under way, familiar voices — in the media and elsewhere — have begun to sound the alarms over stadiums full of unmasked students and fans. Perhaps most memorable was this video of a jam-packed Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, Va., for Virginia Tech’s home opener against the University of North Carolina. As the clip made the rounds online, it sparked outrage and fear of an inevitable COVID outbreak.
It’s been over a month since that first game, and Virginia Tech has played two more games in Blacksburg since then. Has there been a COVID outbreak? Not so much. Mark Owczarski, associate vice president for university relations at Virginia Tech, tells National Review in an email that the data show “not only that there hasn’t been a surge within the university community, but seven day positivity rates in the Tech community have declined.”
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