Talking is just as risky as SINGING for spreading coronavirus
The research, supported Public Health England and the Culture Department, was used to inform ministers' decision to allow indoor concerts and stage performances to resume last week.
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 20, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Ethiopia: Covid-19 Puts the Country's Politics in ICU
[Africa In Fact] Itika Teferi, a singer in Afan Oromo, one of the widely spoken languages in Ethiopia, found himself inside the Millennium Hall, a kilometre away from Addis Ababa's international airport, a couple of weeks ago. The hall, which is of a size unmatched in the country, serves as a conference centre. It is the preferred venue for major national events, including concerts by the country's pop sensations. It was here that Hachalu Hundissa, a popular singer and outspoken critic of the EPRDF regime, electrified youn
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 20, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Traffic management during a big sport event: a case study in Kolkata City - Ghosh K, Singh N, Maitra B.
Big events such as sports, concerts, political gathering, fairs, and etc. result in high congestion levels as attendees overload the roads in the network surrounding the event venue, which warrants for development of an efficient and systematic traffic man...
Source: SafetyLit - August 13, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Egress, Escape, Evacuation, Crowds Source Type: news

Safe outdoor activities during the COVID-19 pandemic
For many people, the summer of 2020 has been like no other in recent memory. Public health restrictions caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have led to cancelled festivals, concerts and other events. Many vacations and large celebrations have been limited or put on hold. Despite the changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, there's still [...]
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - August 4, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

At SoCal's drive-in concerts, fans, artists and promoters make the best of a live-music apocalypse
With traditional live-music gatherings prohibited because of COVID-19, drive-in concerts have emerged as a safe, socially distant, better-than-nothing alternative.
Source: L.A. Times - Health - July 21, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: August Brown Source Type: news

German coronavirus experiment enlists help of concertgoers
4,000 music fans to attend gig as part of study into how virus spreads in large gatheringsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageGerman scientists are planning to equip 4,000 pop music fans with tracking gadgets and bottles of fluorescent disinfectant to get a clearer picture of how Covid-19 could be prevented from spreading at large indoor concerts.As cultural mass gatherings across the world remain on hold for the foreseeable future, researchers in eastern Germany are recruiting volunteers for a “coronavirus experiment” with the singer-songwriter Tim Bendzko, to be held at an indoor stadium in ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 20, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Philip Oltermann in Berlin Tags: Coronavirus outbreak Germany Music Culture Europe Infectious diseases World news Science Source Type: news

How will the L.A. Phil carry on amid COVID-19? Dudamel and Smith lay out a plan
Gustavo Dudamel and CEO Chad Smith cancel Disney Hall concerts through December and lay out an ambitious plan to cope with the coronavirus.
Source: L.A. Times - Health - July 16, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mark Swed Source Type: news

WME's global head of music Marc Geiger exits talent agency
WME head of music Marc Geiger has exited as the industry grapples with cancellation and postponements of concerts amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Source: L.A. Times - Health - June 26, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Wendy Lee Source Type: news

'We were packed like sardines': evidence grows of mass-event dangers early in pandemic
Research appears to back up stories of people who believe they got coronavirus at events UK government allowed to go aheadCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe last major football match played in England before all sport was suspended because of the coronavirus crisis was the European Champions Leagueshowpiece between Liverpool and Atletico Madrid. It was a thrilling contest that transfixed 54,000 people under the floodlights of Anfield.But now that match, along with many other mass events that the government allowed to go ahead as the pandemic spread in March, is coming under renewed scrutiny a...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 3, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Conn Tags: Coronavirus outbreak Politics Infectious diseases Science UK news Football Cheltenham Festival Cheltenham Festival 2020 Liverpool Atl ético Madrid Horse racing Medical research Source Type: news

Did singing together spread coronavirus to four choirs?
In Amsterdam, 102 members of one choir fell ill, and cases have been reported in Europe, America and the UK. But scientists cannot agree on the causeCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOn 8 March this year, the Amsterdam Mixed Choir gave a performance of Bach ’s St John Passion in the city’s Concertgebouw auditorium. It was one of the last major classical concerts to be held in the Netherlands before the country went into Covid-19 lockdown.The performance had unexpected consequences. Days later, singers began to sicken, one by one, until 102 of 130 choristers had fallen ill with Covid-19. One ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 17, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Robin McKie Tags: Coronavirus outbreak Choral music Infectious diseases Culture Science Source Type: news

Medium of a plague year: 6 stories from the present — and future — of TV
Television is likely to be remembered as the medium of our own plague year — an art form that kept its lights on as others' flickered out.TV, after all, is a mode of communication expressly designed to get us to stay home, so glued to our stories we forget to venture outside. And though it has traditionally been skewered as the "idiot box" or "boob tube" for these qualities, such slang terms, already hopelessly retrograde, now read as unjust: Who among us hasn't turned to television in recent weeks, whether to stay apprised of the crisis or for a moment escape it?As with the man standing before a shop window of stacked s...
Source: L.A. Times - Health - May 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Los Angeles Times staff Source Type: news

What will concerts look like when California reopens?
Even in the most optimistic future under COVID-19, live music will be one of the last things to return to normal. When it does — and it will eventually — shows will be profoundly different. Beloved venues may have closed for good, crowds will be wary of each other on dancefloors and digital life may have supplanted sweaty clubs and sunny festival fields.Since The Times started documenting the fallout of COVID-19 for the music industry, the news has often been dire. The concert business is decimated for now, and everyone from wedding bands to record store clerks are terrified of the next few months. But public health ex...
Source: L.A. Times - Health - May 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: August Brown, Randall Roberts, Mikael Wood Source Type: news

New Orleans musicians find creative ways to keep playing
New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz, has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. All major concerts have been canceled, and the streets are no longer buzzing with the musical sounds the city is known for. The artists of New Orleans have found a way to continue entertaining audiences with live streamed online concerts, some right outside of their homes in the driveway and others playing to empty streets from balconies. Mireya Villarreal speaks to some of these musicians about their creative new performances.
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - May 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Feedback: Why a front-porch concert is so moving in coronavirus era
Readers weigh in on a cellist's front-porch concerts and TV ads in coronavirus time, pop-up bookstores vs. bookmobiles; renegade designs for anew LACMA and more.
Source: L.A. Times - Health - May 2, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ed Stockly Source Type: news

In Gov. Newsom's four-phase plan to reopen the state, concerts are phase four
Gov. Gavin Newsom said today that "therapeutics" would have to be developed and implemented before mass gatherings such as concerts and sporting events could return to California.
Source: L.A. Times - Health - April 29, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: August Brown Source Type: news

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