No Coronavirus 'Spike' from Protests

[Swede]

States in the South and West that reopened their economies early and with few precautions are now grappling with huge surges in daily case counts, hospitalizations, and deaths.

Yet Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and other cities across the country have not seen the sharp, sustained spikes that were expected after hundreds of thousands of people gathered for protests against police brutality.

https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-no-spike-cities-despite-protests-big-surge-in-states-that-reopened-20200627.html

[Thekaspervote]

1. Interesting..shows how important a simple cloth mask is!!

[applegrove]

5. Especially if you are not outdoors. Those young people at the George Floyd

protests were miticulous about wearing masks.

[dem4decades]

10. Looks like Asians were right about masks all the time. Before Covid I thought they were

over reacting, i guess they were just playing it safe and smarter than me.

[Zambero]

2. Outdoor vs. Indoor

I don't recall the source, but a recent study concluded that indoor transmission of the virus is 18 times more efficient than open air, given the same distancing criteria for both.

[totodeinhere]

3. Those places do continue to need to be careful though or it could yet make a big comeback

there as well.

[42bambi]

4. I think partly due to that most were wearing masks. One can only hope. nt

[BigmanPigman]

6. I bet the GOP and team tRump were praying for that to happen.

[roamer65]

7. Indoor versus outdoor and no mask and masked.

Masks are the key.

The Missouri Great Clips was indoor but everyone was masked. No transmission of the virus from the infected hair stylists.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. These places did what was needed earlier to diminish community spread.

If the virus is deprived of hosts, community spread must stop. People who think it's a hoax don't make any effort to deprive the virus of hosts and thus don't experience waves -- it's just a spike and a plateau.

[Steelrolled]

9. Good sign for outdoor fall sports?