CAMPAIGN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/RALLY: “President Donald Trump’s campaign rallies led to more than 30,000 coronavirus cases, according to a new paper posted by researchers at Stanford.
Researchers looked at 18 Trump rallies held between June 20 and Sept. 22 and analyzed Covid-19 data the weeks following each event. They compared the counties where the events were held to other counties that had a similar trajectory of confirmed Covid-19 cases prior to the rally date…
The researchers found that the rallies ultimately resulted in more than 30,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19. They also concluded that the rallies likely led to more than 700 deaths, though not necessarily among attendees…
The paper, which has not undergone a peer review yet, was published on open access preprint platform SSRN.”
-Berkeley Lovelace Jr., “Trump campaign rallies led to more than 30,000 coronavirus cases, Stanford researchers say,” CNBC.com, Oct. 31, 2020