Trump’s rally habit gets tagged as a public-health disaster
A new analysis landing on October 31 put hard numbers on what public-health critics had been warning for months: Trump’s campaign rallies were not just reckless optics, they were likely COVID spread events. The study estimated that 18 rallies held between late June and late September produced more than 30,000 extra infections and likely more than 700 deaths. That is a brutal data point for a campaign that kept selling mass indoor and outdoor crowds as a badge of political courage. It also landed on a day when the president’s team was still acting as if the pandemic were someone else’s problem.
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Trump’s rally habit gets tagged as a public-health disaster
A new analysis landing on October 31 put hard numbers on what public-health critics had been warning for months: Trump’s campaign rallies were not just reckless optics, they were likely COVID spread events. The study estimated that 18 rallies held between late June and late September produced more than 30,000 extra infections and likely more than 700 deaths. That is a brutal data point for a campaign that kept selling mass indoor and outdoor crowds as a badge of political courage. It also lande…
A new analysis landing on October 31 put hard numbers on what public-health critics had been warning for months: Trump’s campaign rallies were not just reckless optics, they were likely COVID spread events. The study estimated that 18 rallies held between late June and late September produced more than 30,000 extra infections and likely more than 700 deaths. That is a brutal data point for a campaign that kept selli…
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