Association of National Football League Fan Attendance With County-Level COVID-19 Incidence in the 2020-2021 Season.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The 2020-2021 National Football League (NFL) season had some games with fans and others without. Thus, the exposed group (ie, games with fans) and the unexposed group (games without fans) could be examined to better understand the association between fan attendance and local incidence of COVID-19.

Objective

To assess whether NFL football games with varying degrees of in-person attendance were associated with increased COVID-19 cases in the counties where the games were held, as well as in contiguous counties, compared with games without in-person attendance for 7-, 14-, and 21-day follow-ups.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used data for all 32 NFL teams across the entirety of the 2020-2021 season. Separate daily time-series of

SUBMITTER: Kurland J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9675007 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature