I’ve had my eye on the fallout from the Canelo Alvarez/Billy Joe Saunders fight since it happened on May 8, as it was one of the most highly attended sporting events since the start of the pandemic. It may have been the single most highly attended indoor event in the United States, period, since COVID arrived last February, in fact. The retractable roof on AT&T Stadium was closed.
Seventy-three thousand people packed together, talking, screaming, occasionally visiting small, poorly ventilated public restrooms inside the stadium that many other strangers had passed through in the span of a few hours. If anything was going to seed a new outbreak in Texas, you’d expect Alvarez/Saunders to be it. It wouldn’t be the first sporting event to have driven a rise in cases if it did, either. Scientists believe that a soccer match in Lombardy last February helped seed that region’s catastrophic first wave.-- More...
