CDC Confirms Power of Anime (and Ventilation) Prevented NYC Con From Being an Omicron Superspreader
was not a superspreader event, despite the attendance of one of the first known people in the U.S. to have been infected with the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
However, don’t go packing your bags for San Diego Comic-Con just yet. There are still a lot of additional factors that likely kept infection rates down. For instance, the CDC reported that had Omicron been more prevalent around the city at the time, things likely wouldn’t have gone so well. And, of course, Omicron is far more prevalent now across the country.
Still, this means Anime NYC could stand as a model for other conventions to follow in the future in order for relatively large groups of fans to come together and celebrate comics, anime, gaming, and more in relative safety. There’s obviously no timeline in sight where 160,000 people are all going to crowd into the San Diego Convention Center anytime soon, but man, it would be nice to hang out with some fellow nerds in person again eventually.
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