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TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
Sat Oct 24, 2020, 11:44 PM Oct 2020

Trump's campaign made stops nationwide. Coronavirus cases surged in his wake in at least five places

What is notable is that the earliest post-rally spikes occurred even as the nation’s overall case counts were in decline from a peak in mid-July.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/10/22/trumps-campaign-made-stops-nationwide-then-coronavirus-cases-surged/3679534001/

As President Donald Trump jetted across the country holding campaign rallies during the past two months, he didn’t just defy state orders and federal health guidelines. He left a trail of coronavirus outbreaks in his wake.

The president has participated in nearly three dozen rallies since mid-August, all but two at airport hangars. A USA TODAY analysis shows COVID-19 cases grew at a faster rate than before after at least five of those rallies in the following counties: Blue Earth, Minnesota; Lackawanna, Pennsylvania; Marathon, Wisconsin; Dauphin, Pennsylvania; and Beltrami, Minnesota.

Together, those counties saw 1,500 more new cases in the two weeks following Trump’s rallies than the two weeks before – 9,647 cases, up from 8,069.

Public health officials additionally have linked 16 cases, including two hospitalizations, with the rally in Beltrami County, Minnesota, and one case with the rally in Marathon County, Wisconsin. Outside of the counties identified by USA TODAY with a greater case increase after rallies, officials identified four cases linked to Trump rallies.
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Trump's campaign made stops nationwide. Coronavirus cases surged in his wake in at least five places (Original Post) TomCADem Oct 2020 OP
Trump Typhoid Mary 2020 Demovictory9 Oct 2020 #1
Damn I wish he'd stay the hell out of Wisconsin! Talitha Oct 2020 #2

Talitha

(6,619 posts)
2. Damn I wish he'd stay the hell out of Wisconsin!
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 12:00 AM
Oct 2020

It's like - he knows he's going to lose here, and is hellbent for leather to make sure he infects as many of us as possible as a punishment.

My beautiful, beloved state is on fire right now from the damned virus.

TRUMP GO HOME!!!!!!

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