Bar attendee* (N = 29) and secondary† (N = 17) confirmed§ and probable¶ COVID-19 cases associated with a local bar opening event, by timing of specimen collection relative to event — Illinois, February 2021
Abbreviation: NAAT = nucleic acid amplification test.
* Onset of COVID-19–like symptoms or receipt of a positive SARS-CoV-2 test result within 14 days of the bar opening event in a bar patron or employee who reported attending the event and who had no previous identified epidemiologic link to a COVID-19 case outside that setting.
† Positive SARS-CoV-2 NAAT or antigen test result received by a close contact of a person with an event-associated case.
§ Positive SARS-CoV-2 NAAT or antigen test result.
¶ COVID-19–like symptoms in a person with an epidemiologic link to the bar opening event but no laboratory confirmation of infection.