GalaxyCon opens at Raleigh Convention Center, here are the COVID-19 protocols

GalaxyCon is back at the Raleigh Convention Center and tens of thousands are expected to attend.

Around 25,000 people will circle through the convention center Thursday through Sunday for the first time in nearly two years.

“COVID has kind of shut down all the fun across the world,” Ghost Buster Exhibitor Adam Deiulio said. “Some of us live from Comicon to Comicon. For these three or four days we’re at this show, I get to be me.”

But the conference comes as COVID-19 cases surge, driven by the new, highly transmissible delta variant.

“That’s 25,000 people over four days and at different times of the day,” President of GalaxyCon Michael Broder said. “There’s never going to be more than a few thousand people in a place at one time.”

Despite new Center for Disease Control and Prevention guidance recommending everyone, even fully vaccinated people, wear masks in high-risk areas, GalaxyCon is not enforcing masks.

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