Your body may not survive, but rock ‘n’ roll never dies.
Contact tracers in Germany are asking 4,000 brave music fans to attend an …
Your body may not survive, but rock ‘n’ roll never dies. Contact tracers in Germany are asking 4,000 brave music fans to attend an upcoming concert for the sake of science. The cohort of concertgoers will be there to watch Euro-pop singer Tim Bendzko, but their presence in the crowded indoor arena will serve the fight against the coronavirus. Although most of Bendzko’s “Bin Ich Ja Hier” (“Now I Am Here”) tour has been postponed until next summer — much to the chagrin of his 192,000 Instagram followers — his show on Aug.22 will serve as part of a study dubbed RESTART-19, or “risk prediction of indoor sport and culture events for the transmission of COVID-19.” Organized by researchers at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, the aim of the experiment is to analyze how a viral pathogen spreads in a packed, indoor space. With that information, they hope to “identify a framework” for how large events could be conducted “without posing a danger for the population.
