Nurse: Las Vegas conference turned into superspreader event

AURORA, Colo. — A Colorado caregiver who attended a league with 20,000 strangers successful Las Vegas learned connected the past time it whitethorn person been a superspreader event. She believes the lone crushed she didn't get sick is due to the fact that she's vaccinated.

"I americium a caregiver by trade," said Marissa Baird, the outpatient coiled attraction halfway manager astatine The Medical Center of Aurora. "I enactment successful wellness attraction and I spot people...they're dying."

Few would reason that nursing has been particularly hard lately.

"We're each what I similar to telephone 'COVID tired,'" Baird said.

When she got an accidental to instrumentality a interruption and caput to Las Vegas for a league earlier this month, she jumped astatine it.

"We craved a small spot of fun," Baird said. "I went to 3 concerts. We had a achromatic and achromatic gala."

There's a rule, of course, astir question to Vegas.

"What happens successful Vegas stays successful Vegas," she said. "Well, possibly not this time."

In fact, the precise happening galore successful Baird's radical traveled to Vegas to get distant from came backmost location with them.

"We came home, and wrong 24 hours, everybody wrong my contiguous radical tested affirmative for COVID," Baird said.

That radical included Baird's roommate astatine that immense league successful Las Vegas. The league was not related to wellness care, but a jewelry event.

"We were wearing masks, but we were successful an arena with 20,000 people," she said. "And of the radical I was with, the bulk of them are unvaccinated."

Baird feels fortunate she did not get sick, which she straight attributes to the vaccine.

"We ate unneurotic and drank together," Baird said. "[The vaccine] helped my immunity forestall maine from getting it successful adjacent quarters with different people."

She's sharing her communicative due to the fact that if she wasn't a believer successful the vaccine before, she surely is now.

"People are inactive getting sick," Baird said. "I consciousness blessed. I consciousness blessed to person had entree to it precise early. I besides consciousness blessed to person the cognition and comfortability to person done it aboriginal connected to support maine during these times."

This communicative was primitively published by Russell Haythorn connected Scripps presumption KMGH successful Denver.