The time Toronto held a rock concert for 500k people after the SARS epidemic
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Picture being surrounded by nearly 500,000 people, all rocking out to the Rolling Stones after the end of an epidemic. This is exactly what happened at Toronto s SARSstock almost two decades ago.
After the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV) hit Toronto in 2003, the city s tourism industry was seriously impacted. This led to the
Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto benefit concert, otherwise known as SARSstock or SARSfest.
It broke records for being the largest outdoor ticketed event in Canadian history.