Super Bowl Crowd Presents an Experiment in Covid Immunity

Feb. 4, 2021, 7:34 PM UTC

The National Football League is hoping to avoid any large-scale Covid-19 outbreaks at the Super Bowl, and immunity appears to be a major part of the game plan. A sharp drop in new infections also is on the league’s side.

The NFL capped overall attendance at 25,000, a record low for football’s biggest event, which this year features the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Tampa, Florida.

While the league has given tickets to 7,500 vaccinated health-care workers for the championship game, it hasn’t released health information about the remainder of the attendees. But statistical models can help ...

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