CDC Urges Scrapping All Mass Gatherings in U.S. For Eight Weeks
- Agency recommends cancelling or postponing a range of events
- Weddings, parades, concerts and sports all on to-avoid list
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In the most extreme effort yet to slow the march of coronavirus in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that events of 50 people or more not be held for about two months.
For the next eight weeks, organizers should cancel or postpone in-person events of that size throughout the U.S., the agency said on its website Sunday. When feasible, organizers could modify events to be virtual.