Wear your mask well placed on your nose and mouth, wash your hands well with hydroalcoholic gel, and test negative.
These are the conditions for attending a concert without the risk of being contaminated or infecting another spectator with Covid 19, according to the results of a study published this Saturday by the British journal The Lancet.
This study was carried out by the AP-HP, Inserm and the University of Paris during a concert in Indochina, on May 29 at the Accor Arena in Paris,
Of the 4451 "guinea pigs" who attended this concert standing and without physical distancing, only eight people tested positive.
"But as we had asked people to take their saliva on the day of the concert, five of them were in fact already positive," Professor Constance Delaugerre, who coordinated this study, told Franceinfo.
These spectators had to perform a self-sampling PCR saliva 7 days after the concert and only 8 of them were positive.
In the “control” group of nearly 2,000 participants who did not enter the room but who were subjected to the same protocol, 3 were positive 7 days later.
Similar infection rate for spectators and non-spectators
According to the study, the infection rate is therefore "similar among people attending a concert [and] people not attending."
The question of variants does not call into question the results, also considers Constance Delaugerre.
"The barrier linked to wearing a mask well worn throughout an event allows me to protect against the spread of a variant, even more transmissible
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, adds the scientist.
Participants were young (median age 27), predominantly female (57%), and one in two had received at least one dose of the vaccine.
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These results confirm the first ones, published by AP-HP last July.
At the time, the Prodiss, the main union of producers and owners of theaters, which organized the concert, is obviously delighted with these results.
"This is good news," responded Angelo Gopee, vice-president of Prodiss.
It is the scientific guarantee that our concerts and our venues are not hotbeds of contamination, as we have been claiming for months.