Houston Rodeo opens with cautious approach to coronavirus concern
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Not even the Houston Rodeo is immune from concern about the coronavirus. On the first day of the three-week festival, there was no sign of face masks or bottles of hand sanitizer strewn throughout the festival grounds at NRG Park. But rodeo organizers were going to extra lengths to ensure the festival, which attracts roughly 2.5 million people annually, would not be the scene of an outbreak of the respiratory disease. “The Rodeo’s on top of it,... read more...
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