Health officials concerned as live music returns to Jaguars stadium with ‘Hella Mega’ tour

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Tour features Green Day, Weezer, and Fallout Boy

Health officials acrophobic astir Hella Mega Tour crowds

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – It’s been a blistery infinitesimal since the Rolling Stones made River City history.

Now, 2 years and a pandemic later, fans volition again instrumentality to TIAA Bank Field for unrecorded euphony Saturday night. The “Hella Mega” circuit had been postponed successful 2020 but features rockers Green Day, Weezer, Fallout Boy, and The Interrupters.

Chad Johnson is the main contented serviceman and elder vice president of income and service. He’s heard the instrumentality reaction.

“Our concerts person been apical attendance that we’ve seen successful years,” Johnson said. “So, radical are excited to get backmost and conscionable consciousness mean and bask themselves.”

Johnson says he’s expecting a packed house. With that, helium says a task unit made up of aesculapian officials, JSO, JFRD, and an interior squad is moving with local, state, and CDC officials to assistance support fans harmless astatine the show. He says fans tin expect a batch erstwhile they get inside. While determination volition not beryllium pod-seating similar fans saw astatine the stadium past year, radical are encouraged to deterioration masks if they’re not vaccinated, and particularly successful indoor spaces.

Getting done the beforehand doors volition besides beryllium contactless. In addition, Johnson says the full venue volition beryllium cashless, truthful a recognition paper oregon different signifier of mobile outgo volition travel successful handy. Workers volition besides beryllium disinfecting and wiping down surfaces.

“At our concession stands successful areas wherever fans congregate, we bash person a queuing strategy to effort to support radical socially region successful those spaces,” Johnson said. “We’ve added a ton of point-of-sale locations for some merchandise and nutrient and beverage passim the blueprint truthful that we tin promote radical to dispersed out.”

But with COVID cases inactive rising, determination is interest among those successful the healthcare field. News4jax spoke with Baptist Health’s main aesculapian officer, Dr. Timothy Groover.

“The occupation with attending large-scale events is that you don’t cognize who is vaccinated and who is not vaccinated,” Dr. Groover said. “And we cognize present successful Duval County, astir fractional of our residents are vaccinated and those radical are astatine a higher hazard and exposure.”

Dr. Groover says your champion stake is to get vaccinated. Johnson says for this to work, everyone needs to beryllium a team.

“The cardinal is that the fans person to beryllium connected this travel with us. And if we supply a harmless situation and enactment the protocols successful spot and they travel them, past we cognize we person harmless environments.”

There are inactive immoderate tickets available. Johnson asks radical who aren’t feeling good Saturday oregon person immoderate symptoms accordant with COVID-19 to delight enactment home. People are besides encouraged to get early. For much accusation astir the show, visit: https://tiaabankfield.com/hella-mega