It is a show full of bombast – sometimes too much so – heard in what Lopez calls the “mother of all Broadway medleys” and a rousing tribute to Latina superstars including Selena, Gloria Estefan, Shakira and Celia Cruz, that makes you want to join in. And of course, there’s a sequence recalling moments from “Evita” itself.
It’s a show that might never have come together had Asolo Rep not reinvented itself during the pandemic by building its outdoor Terrace Stage. It has presented five concert and theater programs to large, socially distanced and masked crowds since December while the indoor theater remains closed.
Theater teacher Scott Keys retires with a world premiere musical heraldtribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from heraldtribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Airlines are filling up middle seats again. Is that safe?
⋮
Leaving the middle seats blocked on planes could reduce exposure of the new coronavirus by as much as 57%, according to a new study released by CDC on Wednesday.
For the study, researchers from CDC and
Kansas State University (KSU) used data from a KSU study in 2017 in which researchers sprayed an aerosolized virus through two mock airplane cabins: a single-aisle plane and a double-aisle, wide-bodied plane. The researchers then modeled how a virus would spread if every middle seat was open in a 20-row single-aisle plane.
They found that blocking the middle seat reduced the risk of coronavirus exposure anywhere from 23% to 57% compared with a full flight. That reduction in risk resulted from two factors, the researchers said: increased distance between infectious passengers and other passengers, and a decrease in the total number of people in an airplane, which reduces the odds an infectious passenger would be on
Blocking middle seats can reduce coronavirus spread, CDC says Updated: 3 hours ago
Print article A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released Wednesday found that blocking the middle seat on planes - a practice almost all U.S. airlines have stopped - can reduce coronavirus risks to passengers by 23% to 57%. Although the study, which addresses exposure and not transmission, was conducted without taking passenger masking into account, the CDC said social distancing on planes is still beneficial. “A case study of COVID-19 transmission on a flight with mandated mask-wearing . . . suggests that some virus aerosol is emitted from an infectious masked passenger, such that distancing could still be useful,” a CDC news release said.