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Dr. Anthony Fauci sees a light at the end of the tunnel for live music events in the United States amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Anthony Fauci, M.D., director of the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, spoke at an Association of Performing Arts Professionals conference on Saturday, January 9th. He feels optimistic that concerts and festivals can return in the fall of this year.
According to Dr. Fauci, depending on the status of vaccinations, live entertainment can return “sometime in the fall of 2021″. This would require providing herd immunity to the country. In order to reach this point, the United States must get about 75% to 85% of the country vaccinated.
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Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is pictured during a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing on July 31 He recently appeared during the virtual APAP|NYC conference held by the Association of Performing Arts Professionals to talk about venues reopening.
With the return of live shows linked to the success of the COVID-19 vaccine distribution, there may be no better person to ask about when the industry can expect U.S. touring to return than Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and one of the lead members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
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But officials at the DCU Center, Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts and other entertainment venues in Central Mass. are hoping to pull back the curtains as soon as this fall.
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, an infectious disease expert, indicated last weekend that theaters and concert halls could reopen before the end of the year.
“If everything goes right, this will occur some time in the fall of 2021, so that by the time we get to the early to mid-fall, you can have people feeling safe performing onstage as well as people in the audience,” Fauci said during a conference of the Association of Performing Arts Professionals, according to the New York Times.
A potential return to concerts and large-scale social gatherings is finally on the horizon. The
New York Times reports that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the United States top infectious disease expert, estimates that concerts and other live venues may be able to safely reopen some time during the fall of 2021.
The news came during a virtual conference held by the Association of Performing Arts Professionals, with Fauci speaking to the enormous economic difficulty those in the entertainment and performance industries have faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. The virus spread first began to impact U.S. concerts in early 2020, with a large wave of country tours and events being canceled in March of that year.