Coachella was mostly outdoors, but the festival did not require masks or vaccination.
Amy Harris / Invision/APDaily Covid cases in Riverside County, California, rose 76 percent in two weeks as tens of thousands of people gathered there for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival over the last two weekends.
Riverside County’s average daily Covid cases jumped from 102 on April 14, the day before the festival started, to 180 cases on Thursday, four days after it ended. But that figure is likely an undercount, disease experts said, because of the common use of at-home tests. It may take at least another week for the full scope of infections to be recorded, Rimoin said. By then, another festival in the Coachella Valley will have come and gone: the Stagecoach Country Music Festival, which Friday to Sunday.
"We've looked at outdoor events in the past as being a little bit more protective than indoor events when it comes to the transmission of Covid-19, but I think that omicron really changed that calculation," said Cindy Prins, a clinical associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Florida.
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