SHORELINE, Wash. (AP) — Disease trackers are calling a choir practice in Shoreline a so-called superspreader event that illustrates how easily the coronavirus can pass from person to person.
A report published Tuesday suggests the act of singing may have spread the virus in a fine mist of particles.
The report says a choir member with symptoms attended a March 10 rehearsal. Of 60 others who attended, 52 got sick with COVID-19, including two who died.
The rehearsal was held nearly two weeks before the state’s stay-at-home order.