This choir practice may have cost lives

This choir practice may have cost lives

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norman lebrecht

March 30, 2020

The LA Times reports the fatal consequence of a rehearsal that went ahead in the gathering gloom.

… On March 6, Adam Burdick, the choir’s conductor, informed the 121 members in an email that amid the “stress and strain of concerns about the virus,” practice would proceed as scheduled at Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church.

Sixty singers showed up…. Nearly three weeks later, 45 have been diagnosed with COVID-19 or ill with the symptoms, at least three have been hospitalized, and two are dead.

Read on here.

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