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Community outbreaks of Covid-19 often emerge after Trump’s campaign rallies
"Fact check: Trump makes at least 16 false or misleading claims to '60 Minutes'"
By Zach Nayer October 16, 2020
With Air Force One behind him, President Trump speaks during a campaign rally last month at Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport in Newport News, Va. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
In mid-May I sat in the backyard of my family’s home garbed in graduation regalia and, via Zoom, joined my medical school classmates to read these words of the Hippocratic oath: “that into whatsoever house I shall enter, it shall be for the good of the sick.”
When President Trump held a mass campaign rally in Newport News, where I now work, at the end of September, he did so against the explicit warning of local public health officials .. https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-virus-outbreak-health-virginia-public-health-beadd1b110c4a55bd2c13974722ec198 . He was entering this community — our house — not for the good of the sick but to promote himself. The gathering may have brought sickness to the community. As a new physician, I find that deeply disturbing.
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This may be an imperfect measurement. Some rally-goers travel to these events from other counties and go back home afterward, possibly contributing to community outbreaks elsewhere. And community outbreaks may, of course, be due to other events — correlation does not equal causation. But these data offer a metric to quantify the damage from a public health hazard. Any signal of community spread would likely originate closer to the epicenter of these events.
What we found was sobering yet not surprising. Spikes in Covid-19 cases occurred in seven of the 14 cities and townships where these rallies were held: Tulsa; Phoenix; Old Forge, Penn.; Bemidji, Minn.; Mankato, Minn.; Oshkosh, Wis.; and Weston, Wis.
https://www.statnews.com/2020/10/16/trump-campaign-rallies-leave-a-trail-of-community-outbreaks/
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"Fact check: Trump makes at least 16 false or misleading claims to '60 Minutes'"
By Zach Nayer October 16, 2020
With Air Force One behind him, President Trump speaks during a campaign rally last month at Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport in Newport News, Va. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
In mid-May I sat in the backyard of my family’s home garbed in graduation regalia and, via Zoom, joined my medical school classmates to read these words of the Hippocratic oath: “that into whatsoever house I shall enter, it shall be for the good of the sick.”
When President Trump held a mass campaign rally in Newport News, where I now work, at the end of September, he did so against the explicit warning of local public health officials .. https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-virus-outbreak-health-virginia-public-health-beadd1b110c4a55bd2c13974722ec198 . He was entering this community — our house — not for the good of the sick but to promote himself. The gathering may have brought sickness to the community. As a new physician, I find that deeply disturbing.
[...]
This may be an imperfect measurement. Some rally-goers travel to these events from other counties and go back home afterward, possibly contributing to community outbreaks elsewhere. And community outbreaks may, of course, be due to other events — correlation does not equal causation. But these data offer a metric to quantify the damage from a public health hazard. Any signal of community spread would likely originate closer to the epicenter of these events.
What we found was sobering yet not surprising. Spikes in Covid-19 cases occurred in seven of the 14 cities and townships where these rallies were held: Tulsa; Phoenix; Old Forge, Penn.; Bemidji, Minn.; Mankato, Minn.; Oshkosh, Wis.; and Weston, Wis.
https://www.statnews.com/2020/10/16/trump-campaign-rallies-leave-a-trail-of-community-outbreaks/
See also:
Morons as Noem see even disease through rose-colored glasses...
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=159092676
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