Many dusty revelers are discovering their sore throats and slight coughs are not just the the normal symptoms after a particularly hot and dusty week of partying — it is also COVID in many ca…
encouraged those returning from the festivities to test themselves, as the ranks of those testing positive in the days after grows.
Abbott and hundreds of others are still in the desert cleaning up from the event. They work for several weeks on either end of the official event while employed by the organization to help set up and break down Black Rock City, the temporary city erected in the desert. “A lot of people are just tired of being worried all the time,” Abbott said last week, but he took “extreme caution,” and has avoided infection so far. Not all of his friends and fellow workers are so lucky, “a lot of our long-term people are down for the count right now.”
The organization did not provide numbers for how many reports of positive cases they received, or how many participants were treated for COVID by the medical team. But, he said, “the numbers don’t seem extraordinary.”
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