- The San Francisco 49ers loss to the Kansas City Chiefs during this year’s Super Bowl game back in February had an unintended consequence that’s actually connected to the COVID-19 coronavirus.
- San Francisco was just starting to see its first coronavirus cases back then, and it’s now believed that a massive championship parade in the city following a 49ers win would have served as a veritable breeding ground for the virus and turned into a super-spreader event.
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Nobody in the stadium realized it at the time, but while the San Francisco 49ers were in the process of losing the Super Bowl to the Kansas City Chiefs in Miami back in February, doctors were in the process of setting up a COVID-19 operations center at the University of California-San Francisco. That’s according to a new report which notes that the first confirmed coronavirus cases had started to show up in the Bay Area while the rest of the country was focused on the big game. So what does that have to do with the Super Bowl?
If the 49ers had won the game, there would have been a championship parade in San Francisco. That parade would have drawn tens of thousands of people, and would have taken place just as the coronavirus outbreak was poised to explode around the US. Turns out, that defeat probably saved countless lives.
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