TAMPA, Fla. - A recreational hockey game played at a Tampa Bay area rink is to blame for a COVID-19 outbreak.
It happened back in June, but was detailed in a report released this week by the CDC.Ice hockey is fast-paced, highly physical, with lots of close contact -- the perfect environment for spreading the coronavirus hotspot.“You’re likely to spread the virus just by the heavy breathing that you’re doing just by exerting yourself,” explained University of South Florida professor of public health, Dr.
Marissa Levine. “All of that being indoors then made that more likely as a potential for a superspreader event.”The term super-spreader means when one contagious person infects many others.According to the report from the CDC, that is.