A video of hundreds of people in bathing suits, and elbow-to-elbow, sipping cocktails under the sun in a swimming pool in Missouri in the United States, has been viewed over 16 million times since Saturday, fueling fears of a loosening of the precipitate while the Covid-19 still poses a threat.

The scene occurred Saturday in a restaurant and bar with a shallow pool at the edge of the lake of the Ozarks, a large reservoir created in the ozark mountains, in the centre of the country.