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Bevo’s Daily Roundup: Health official says 25 percent stadium capacity is bad idea for Texas football

The bad news keeps on coming for Texas Longhorns fans.

Earlier this week, Texas officials were in talks about whether to decrease Royal-Memorial Stadium capacity from 50 percent to 25 percent for the upcoming fall football season.

Now, Austin Public Health director Dr. Mark Escott says even that’s a bad idea.

The challenge with UT Football at 25% capacity...if the prevalence of disease on game day is similar to today, with 25,000 fans we can expect more than 100 of those fans to be COVID-19 positive...and then it multiplies.