Coronavirus questions surface following large demonstrations

Will this weekend's protests put our city at risk?

Negative.

No one has died we begin our team coverage with emma jerome who is standing by at the federal courthouse with what health officials are predicting coronavirus will look like following this weekends large demonstrations as many as 10 thousand people were a part of sunday's march for black lives which started here ar the eugene federal courthouse and ended over a mile away at alton baker park - and with that many people all together the question of coronavirus vulnerability followed a county spokesperson said it's too soon to know if that massive crowd will lead to a spike in cases.

That's because the virus needs to incubate before someone will test positive.

The median time between exposure and onset of symptoms is 4-5 days according to the cdc however research shows that someone is most susceptible to the virus if they are within 6 feet of someone for an hour or longer... something that wasn't happening with the movement of the march and if they were -- most were wearing masks.

"one of the factors in larger group gatherings is the virus is carried in droplets when we breathe or talk or shout or sing and so reducing it's ability to reach others when we're doing those activities is really what we focus on:" yesterday dr. patrick luedtke senior public health director said he anticipated we could see a few additional cases from the protests, but what that looks like is unclear and it doesn't mean everyone who attended needs to self isolate right now lane county did apply for phase 2 reopening friday.

In the next hour we talk phase two and what our chances of being approved to move forward this friday look like -- reporting live in eugene emma