The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that widespread masking, vaccinations and good air flow at the Javits Center prevented the highly contagious omicron variant from spreading widely.
The CDC says that widespread masking, vaccinations and good airflow prevented last year's Anime NYC convention from being a superspreader event for COVID-19.When a person tested positive for omicron after attending an anime convention in New York City late last year, health officials raced to determine if the indoor gathering was a superspreader event.
It wasn't, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded Thursday. Widespread masking, vaccinations and good air flow at the Javits Center prevented the highly contagious omicron variant from spreading widely. Investigators found 119 infections from about 53,000 people who attended the event over three days in November.
A Minnesota man at the Anime NYC convention became one of the first Americans diagnosed with omicron. Omicron spreads more easily than earlier versions of the coronavirus and drove a national surge over the winter. While omicron cases were found in the man's small social circle, other cases turned out to be from the older delta variant, the CDC said.
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