During the European Football Championship, the Corona virus spread less in the stadium and more at private events or in Pubs.
The epidemiological baseline situation determines how much the corona infection increase as a result of a major event such as a European soccer championship. During the European Football Championship, the Corona virus spread less in the stadium and more at private events or in Pubs. © picture alliance / empics / Yui Mok - The impact of the European Soccer (Football) Championship 2020 on the incidence of the Corona pandemic differed a lot among the participating countries. The extent to which the numbers of infections and deaths from Covid-19 increased depended primarily on the initial situation. This was determined by physicists in an analysis of the epidemiological data. The study involved the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen, the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, as well as the Universities of Bonn and Göttingen and the PUNCH4NFDI consortium in the national research data infrastructure. At international soccer tournaments, pathogens have an easy time.
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