I know that this is quickly going to become a big narrative - similar to You Shouldn't Live Below Sea Level! we all heard post-Katrina - but we had like 12 confirmed cases in the US on Mardi Gras day.
The infamous Biogen conference in Boston hadn't even started yet
The idea that Edwards and Cantrell should have proactively cancelled Mardi Gras 10 days earlier than that is pretty silly.