{"id":6711,"date":"2024-05-29T09:19:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T14:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6711"},"modified":"2024-05-29T09:19:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T14:19:56","slug":"lady-gaga-performed-on-stage-with-covid-did-we-learn-nothing-from-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/05\/29\/lady-gaga-performed-on-stage-with-covid-did-we-learn-nothing-from-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Gaga performed on stage with Covid. Did we learn nothing from the pandemic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/article\/2024\/may\/28\/lady-gaga-performed-on-stage-with-covid-did-we-learn-nothing-from-the-pandemic\">The Guardian<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Should you go into work when you\u2019re sick with a contagious virus? Lady Gaga has spoken and the answer, it seems, is \u201csure, why not?\u201d During a recent Q&amp;A for an HBO concert special based on her 2022 Chromatica Ball tour, the pop star was asked to reveal something she had never shared before. In response, she said that she\u2019d performed five shows while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/scene\/news\/lady-gaga-chromatica-ball-covid-1236014645\/\">sick with Covid<\/a>. It probably would have been wise to never share that little titbit, to be honest, and it is a little disturbing to nonchalantly share it now. Still, rather than seeming troubled by this information, the crowd watching the Q&amp;A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/marcmalkin\/status\/1793855098340389206?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1793855098340389206%7Ctwgr%5Eea343fff1d50afefef1a8c4dbf417c2d50b9182b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fvariety.com%2F2024%2Fscene%2Fnews%2Flady-gaga-chromatica-ball-covid-1236014645%2F\">appeared to cheer<\/a>\u00a0and applaud while Lady Gaga grinned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be fair, Lady Gaga isn\u2019t a monster (though her&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ladygaga.fandom.com\/wiki\/Little_Monsters_(fanbase)\">fans are<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 they call themselves \u201cLittle Monsters\u201d): she made it clear that she did have a little think about the ethics of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/today\/2020\/09\/17\/singing-unmasked-indoors-spreads-covid-19-through-aerosols-new-study-confirms\">spewing infectious droplets<\/a>&nbsp;into an enclosed space. The singer said she shared her Covid diagnosis with everyone on her team at the time and told them they didn\u2019t have to work if it made them uncomfortable. As for the concertgoers? \u201cThe way that I saw it is the fans are all putting themselves in harm\u2019s way every day coming to the show,\u201d she reasoned.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"ihV dsSVsn  AUF Sf\"><!-- ihV dsSVsn  AUF Sf --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian Should you go into work when you\u2019re sick with a contagious virus? Lady Gaga has spoken and the answer, it seems, is \u201csure, why not?\u201d During a recent Q&amp;A for an HBO concert special based on her 2022 Chromatica Ball tour, the pop star was asked to reveal something she had never shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coping-with-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6712,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711\/revisions\/6712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}