State Farm Arena contained empty seats as the Black Eyed Peas, Monsta X, Tai Verdes and Dixie D’Amelio performed. Big Time Rush was a late addition to the show’s lineup and Tate McRae closed the night.
There has also been an outbreak of positive COVID-19 cases throughout the world of sports recently from standout athletes like Russell Westbrook, Odell Beckham Jr. and James Harden.
While the number of positive cases of COVID-19 had dropped in the U.S. since the spike this past September, numbers have slowly increased over the past week, according to The New York Times. There were 2,553 new cases in the United States on Dec. 15, a thousand over the week’s average of 1,537 cases.