Film bash was held just two days after the first confirmed case in Washington A host of attendees at 2020 Sundance claim that the film festival may have been one of the first places to be struck by the coronavirus pandemic.
According to an investigation by The Hollywood Reporter, many festival goers came down with symptoms connected with the virus when the event kicked off in Park City in Salt Lake City on January 23, just two days after patient zero was confirmed in Washington on January 21.
Actress Ashley Jackson, who attended the event for the world premiere of Blast Beat, a family drama in which she co-stars, said: “I started texting other people who had been at Sundance, and one said, ‘Yo, we just started calling it the Sundance Plague