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Andy Meek
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- Researchers this week have released a coronavirus update tied to the protests in major cities around the US this summer.
- Almost 40,000 people were surveyed to determine that there is a negative correlation between people who confirmed participating in a racial injustice protest this summer and a locality's coronavirus cases.
- From the report itself: "There is a clear and significant negative correlation between the percentage of a state’s population who reported protesting and the subsequent increase in cases of COVID-19."
Here's a coronavirus update that might surprise some of you -- particularly those of you who thought that this summer's protests largely stemming from the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd might spur an increase in local numbers of coronavirus cases. The logic seemed to be tied to the fact that the protests ignored one of the key elements of the public health guidance we've all been urged to follow for the last six months or so -- social distancing, and not being in close proximity with people outside of one's own household for an extended duration. Accordingly, I predicted here that President Trump might quickly move to dismiss the racial injustice protests by laying any surge in coronavirus cases at their feet.
Here's what happened, instead.
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This study might change what you think you know about the coronavirus originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 12 Aug 2020 at 09:54:39 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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