San Francisco is stabilise itself to host the 50th Super Bowl , but Denver and Charlotte are going to be seeing a real uptick in mortality rates . It seems that if your squad is playing in the Super Bowl , your chances of take hold of a lethal flu go up , albeit slenderly .
Tulane University just analyze 35 year worth of influenza data point , and bring out the disturbing result in the American Journal of Health Economics . If a city had a team playing in the Super Bowl , its mortality rate rate due to flu jumped . Based on information from 1974 through 2009 , metropolis with teams in the Super Bowl saw 18 per centum increases in influenza mortality for people over 65 .
emcee cities , despite an influx of people from all over America , see no addition in mortality . The perpetrator is n’t air travel — it ’s Super Bowl parties . These parties bring together wide radical of the great unwashed who would n’t otherwise meet up . The extended house of the emcee meet the ally and perchance a few lonely work acquaintances . And as the great unwashed get worked up over the game , they neglect a few important things — like not two-fold - dipping . As people shout and cough and the guacamole gets progressively filled with people ’s saliva , the chances of spreading the flu increase .
Tulane scientists suggest get a flu shot , washing hands frequently , or just making it really clear that it ’s not o.k. to double - magnetic inclination . And may we suggest commit in fingerbreadth - bowls to meet with cutpurse if you ’re host a Super Bowl party ? Everyone gets their own . It ’s the elegant way to not spread disease .
[ American Journal of Health Economics ]
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