About 18 election rallies by Donald Trump are estimated to have led to more than 30,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus and likely claimed over 700 lives, a new study by Stanford University researchers said, stressing that the communities where the US President's rallies took place "paid a high price in terms of disease and death.바카라
In the study titled 'The Effects of Large Group Meetings on the Spread of Covid-19: The Case of Trump Rallies', researchers concluded 18 rallies by Trump held between June 20 and September 22 "ultimately resulted in more than 30,000 incremental confirmed cases of Covid-19바카라 and 바카라likely led to more than 700 deaths바카라, which may not necessarily have been among attendees.
바카라Our analysis strongly supports the warnings and recommendations of public health officials concerning the risk of Covid-19 transmission at large group gatherings, particularly when the degree of compliance with guidelines concerning the use of masks and social distancing is low. The communities in which Trump rallies took place paid a high price in terms of disease and death,바카라 the researchers said.
Reacting to a Twitter post on the study, Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden said "President Trump doesn바카라t care about you. He doesn바카라t even care about his own supporters."
The study, released on Friday, noted that more than 8.7 million Americans have contracted Covid-19, resulting in more than 225,000 deaths.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has advised that large in-person events, particularly in settings where participants do not wear masks or practice social distancing, pose a substantial risk of further contagion.
바카라There is reason to fear that such gatherings can serve as 바카라superspreader events바카라, severely undermining efforts to control the pandemic,바카라 it said.
Researchers said the purpose of the study was to shed light on these issues by studying the impact of election rallies held by Trump바카라s campaign between June 20 and September 30.
The researchers said Trump rallies have several 바카라distinguishing features" that lent themselves to this inquiry, adding that attendees at Trump rallies numbered in the thousands and sometimes in tens of thousands.
They noted that the rallies were not geographically ubiquitous and the degree of compliance with guidelines concerning the use of masks and social distancing was low 바카라in part because the Trump campaign downplayed the risk of infection.
This feature heightens the risk that a rally could become a 바카라superspreader event.바카라
The researchers said that to capture the effects of subsequent contagion within the pertinent communities, their analysis encompasses up to 10 post-rally weeks for each event.
바카라Our method is based on a collection of regression models, one for each event, that capture the relationships between post-event outcomes and pre-event characteristics, including demographics and the trajectory of Covid-19 cases, in similar counties,바카라 it said.
