4200 volunteers are expected on August 22 to participate in a concert-test to help scientists better understand the transmission of the Covid-19 in the crowd.
A concert with a full pandemic Covid-19 ? Yes, but for the science. A concert-test must gather 4200 people on August 22, next to Leipzig in Germany to study how you can spread the coronavirus in large gatherings, reports the Guardian. For the moment, more than 1080 people registered for this event which must happen, the German artist Tim Demzko. To participate in the experience, you must be aged 18 to 50 years of age and not have a particular health problem.
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The ministry of Science of Saxony gave its approval to a team of researchers from the Martin-Luther-university of Halle-Wittenberg. “We are trying to determine whether there might be a middle way between the old and the new standards, which would allow the organizers to put enough people in a room together without making financial losses”, explained to the Guardian Stephan Moritz, the head of infectious diseases at the university hospital of Halle and the co-ordinator of the experience.
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The project aims to simulate the risk of an outbreak of Covid-19 through a large event room and search for the framework conditions in which such events can be again achieved in spite of the pandemic, without putting the population in danger”, details the university on its page dedicated to the inscriptions. Currently large gatherings are limited to 1000 people in Germany.
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important Precision, the goal is not that the participants actually pass the Covid-19. Thus, they will be all tested before and after the concert, and wearing a mask will be mandatory. Furthermore, the guinea pigs will have the hydroalcoholic gel available on-site for disinfecting hands. It will, however, be fluorescent so that ultraviolet rays can reveal what surfaces are most likely to spread the virus. Each person will also be equipped with a “plot” intended to save its proximity to the other. The researchers hope to have initial results of the experience at the end of a month, and then present their work in October.
