Post-FilkContinental COVID

[madfilkentist]

A large proportion of the attendees at FilkCONtinental last weekend got COVID. I've heard estimates from a quarter to a third. Every precaution was taken; vaccination and daily testing were required, and people wore masks. There were other groups in the same youth hostel in Wernigerode, and everyone ate in the same area.

So far I haven't heard of anyone with a really bad case.

Comments

[we_are_spc]

Dude, that would've happened regardless, I think. Especially if the others outside the convention didn't take the same precautions ya'll did.

I'm sorry to hear this. We *might* get there...one of these years. xd

-T/R~

[mindstalk]

Feels like I've heard of a lot of other geeky conventions with high masking (unlike science conferences) and *not* becoming superspreader events.

[hrrunka]

I'm aware of 26 positives so far.

The "test every morning" policy only really works if the tests can be relied upon to detect cases very early in the infectious stage. With some of the variants currently active, that would not seem to be the case. Sometimes, tests have turned positive before symptoms developed, but some people developed (mostly mild cold-like) symptoms while continuing to test negative, and only started getting positive tests two or three days after the onset of those symptoms.

Fingers crossed, thumbs pressed, that nobody develops a severe case.