Many ETHDenver attendees report positive COVID-19 tests and few masks
The conference did not enforce a vaccine mandate or social distancing and said that only “some public locations” required participants to wear masks. The transmissibility of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 seems to have affected many attendees at the ETHDenver developer conference, who reported symptoms and positive test results following the event.Many social media posts from ETHDenver attendees after the conclusion of the Feb. 11–20 conference claim they tested positive for the virus. A local news outlet reported that more than 12,000 people from 100 countries attended the event, which....
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