Business Events Are Much Safer Than Typical Daily Activities

New research by Freeman and Epistemix quantifies the low risk of contracting Covid-19 in meeting environments.

You are dramatically less likely to contract Covid-19 at a business event than by simply performing day-to-day activities such as grocery shopping, according to a new study. In fact, the mid-August research found infection rates at business events were as much as 95 percent lower than the average across the U.S. over the same time period. The report, released last week, found that risk of infection at business events was as much as eight times less than the surrounding metro area where the meeting was being held.

The findings are the result of a research partnership between global event producer Freeman and Epistemix, a computational modeling software company that develops simulations to fight disease and inform public health policy. The survey was fielded in mid-August, with responses from 5,165 attendees of business events and 442 exhibitors.

Among key factors driving the relative safety of business events are high vaccination rates (more than 80 percent at the time of the survey), the controllable nature of events, and the correlation between participants’ eagerness to meet in person and their willingness to abide by additional health and safety protocols in order to do so.

Source: Northstarmeetingsgroup.com