Claudia Eller Co-Editor-in-ChiefLast year at this time, there was some speculation in the entertainment press that a number of unsuspecting attendees at the Sundance Film Festival who had fallen ill with severe flu-like symptoms may in fact have been exposed to COVID-19 without knowing it.
The annual Park City festival began its 11-day run — from Jan. 23-Feb. 2 — just days after the first known case of the highly contagious coronavirus was confirmed in Washington state.The Hollywood Reporter, now our sister publication, posted a story on May 6 with the headline “Was Sundance a ‘First Petri Dish’ of Coronavirus in the States?” The writer of the piece, Tatiana Siegel, had interviewed more than a dozen festivalgoers who spoke of symptoms,.
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