Emily Sickbert-Bennett, PhD, MSc, told WRAL that being in intimate gatherings can be more threatening for contracting the coronavirus than being at crowded events.
“What we see from the epidemiological data, the contact tracing and the outbreak investigations is that the majority of the cases are really closely connected to each other by closer contact,” she said.
“Where people are maybe a little bit relaxed or feeling more comfortable because it’s a smaller group, they might be more likely to not adhere to physical distancing, maybe not wearing their masks.”
Sickbert-Bennett is associate professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases and director of UNC Medical Center Infection Prevention.
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