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Wild Super Bowl celebrations in Tampa prompt COVID super-spreader worries

33ft/iStockBy BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News

(TAMPA, Fla.) — Thousands of football fans in Tampa, Florida, many seen without masks and partying shoulder-to-shoulder in the streets as if in a pre-coronavirus time warp, are worrying health care professionals who fear the Super Bowl LV hoopla will become a COVID-19 super-spreader event.

Following the hometown Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ blowout win over the Kansas City Chiefs, revelers poured into the streets outside Raymond James Stadium and elsewhere in the city, apparently throwing caution to the wind and ignoring guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to stay masked up and socially distanced.

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