September 14, 2020
The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally’s impact on the coronavirus, explained
Politifact, Sept. 14, 2020
The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally’s impact on the coronavirus, explained
The paper doesn’t rule out, for example, that the attendees may have been risk-takers who were disproportionately likely to get the virus elsewhere, said Andrew Noymer, an associate professor of population health and disease prevention at the University of California, Irvine. … But Noymer said the effect size still seems too large. “Let’s do a thought experiment,” Noymer added. “The thought experiment is, the Sturgis rally never happened. Would there be 20% fewer cases of COVID in the United States? I think the answer is no.”