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Did A Lot of People Get Covid-19 at Sundance?
People are reconsidering their “Sundance flu”
Rethinking the “Sundance flu”. According to The Hollywood Reporter, a large number of people who attended Sundance in January came down with severe flu-like symptoms, leaving some experts to questions whether the coronavirus spread widely at the event.
“Industryites long have dubbed any illness caught while visiting the 10-day festival as “the Sundance flu,” a byproduct of frigid temperatures, late-night partying, and all that handshaking, in which everyone becomes an unknowing vector for spreading germs. But there was something different about Sundance 2020. A swath of attendees, including festival regulars and at least one high-profile actor, became sicker than ever before, leading some to later believe they had early, undocumented cases of Covid-19.”
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