First covid-19 death linked to Sturgis Motorcycle Rally reported in Minnesota
Source: Washington Post
A Minnesota biker who attended the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally has died of covid-19 —- the first fatality from the virus traced to the 10-day event that drew more than 400,000 to South Dakota.
The man was in his 60s, had underlying conditions and was hospitalized in intensive care for several weeks after returning from the rally, said Kris Ehresmann, infectious-disease director at the Minnesota Department of Health. The case is among at least 260 cases in 11 states tied directly to the event, according to a survey of health departments by The Washington Post.
Epidemiologists believe that figure is a significant undercount, due to the resistance of some rallygoers to testing and the limited contact tracing in some states. As a result, the true scope of infections stemming from the event that ran from Aug. 7 to Aug. 16 is unlikely to ever be known. Public health officials had long expressed concern over the decision to move forward with the annual event, believed to be the largest held anywhere in the U.S. since the pandemic shelved most large-scale gatherings.
Now, just over two weeks after the conclusion of the rally, the Midwest and the Dakotas in particular are seeing a spike in coronavirus cases even as infections decline or plateau in the rest of the country. Besides the fallout from Sturgis, Ehresmann and other health officials attribute much of the increase in the Midwest to people not following public health guidelines, not wearing masks and attending social gatherings such as weddings and funerals.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/09/02/sturgis-rally-death-coronavirus/
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win stupid prizes! 
for a few urgent reasons. Same for most of the EU. Americans not welcome, and they have Rump to thank. It's a shame, as it hurts our tourism here, and would give many Americans a break from MAGAt Madness.
Stay safe WR.
he could have already been "positive" BEFORE he even went and it only manifested while there and he may have left and went right into the hospital. I.e., he could have already been infected a week or more before even going there.
That was the whole danger of having an event like that. You had the risk of a number of attendees who may have already been infected and were either asymptomatic, pre-symptomatic, mildly symptomatic (think it was "just a cold" ), or very symptomatic but didn't give a damn. Because. Sturgis. Coronavirus-is-a-hoax. 
Although given what is going on with a raging pandemic (and about to go into flu season), I think some tend to consider other "possibilities", which is why there is an oft-updated checklist of possible symptoms, some of which don't comport to being due to a run-of-the-mill "cold" or even an allergy.
The bigger issue with this virus is that people get all kinds of combinations and permutations of symptoms when they DO actually have symptoms. Some have a fever but others don't. Some have gastrointestinal problems, others don't. Apparently a strong initial indicator is a "loss of taste" (although even that could be due to a severe sinus blockage and "taste" usually relies on the "smell" ). Another biggy seems to be the tiredness and ache - and to a level that seems to be worse than what a full-blown flu might incur. The initial "common" symptom was apparently shortness of breath.
So it is just a mess. 
including from Minnesota - e.g.,
Minnesota man is believed to be the first death due to infection at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
By Jeremy Olson Star Tribune
September 2, 2020 — 12:06pm
A participant in last month’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota is among the 1,830 people in Minnesota who have died of COVID-19, the Minnesota Department of Health reported Wednesday.
The rider was a man in his 60s with underlying health conditions who was hospitalized and placed in intensive care following his infection with the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
Minnesota health officials have identified at least 49 participants in the Sturgis event who have tested positive for the infection. Several other states have reported infections among Sturgis participants as well.
https://www.startribune.com/sturgis-rider-from-minnesota-dies-of-covid-19/572296082/
What is not known is when he actually "left" the event and was hospitalized nor do they say when he originally arrived there because apparently SD had reported a big pile of "early arrivals" there too. So it's entirely possible that he left early on (it "officially" ran 8/7/20 - 8/16/20), returned home "ill", entered the hospital with severe breathing difficulty, and was put into intensive care immediately (particularly if he had "underlying conditions" ), and remained until he passed away - which could have been several "weeks".
You can't make the assumption that he stayed until the end, came home, then went into the hospital and thus couldn't have been in ICU for "several weeks".
(yes I am gonna mess with you...
IMHO if they had said "a couple weeks", people could legitimately argue that "a couple" = "2 weeks".
But "several weeks" could be anywhere from (more than one obviously) "2 weeks" up to some "low" number of weeks like
3 weeks! Because at "4 weeks" they could say "a month". 
We just don't know because no one really knows (except for his family/friends/the hospital & the local/state health departments) when he got there and how long he stayed before returning to Minnesota.
and since this story came out this afternoon as a breaking news (well after whatever print edition cutoff time they probably have), it's not in today's printed paper (just scanned through it and I even tried a search on on the term "sturgis" ). Would need to check tomorrow to see if they run it in that issue.
Their online "live" site updates pretty much 24/7 but the print edition obviously not so much and it tends to have way less than what they put online. I know you remember the days of the "morning" and "evening" editions of papers. That has gone the way of the dodo.
First is how the article appears as a column on the page (appears on pg. 7 taking up a space that is 2/3rds of a page wide and a ballpark of 3/5 of a page long) and the second is a zoom of it. Looks like they used the last revised content for print.
and how many end up as long haulers that suffer without end?
Elect a Clown, Get a Circus.
for those that die because of their entitlement attitude.
White Power Cornfed Brunette Barbie, Kim Reynolds, are having a contest to see which one can virtually tug job Trumpy the best without (one would hope!) actually physically petting his orange mushroom. Ernst is in the mix too. The true meaning of Mini-Strokers.
and apparently they are having huge issues with contact-tracing among attendees (and it's obvious why there would be problems).
Hell here in the Philly area just a few weeks ago, our tracers reported only about a 65% "successful contact" rate, with almost 1/3rd of them having either claimed to have had "no contact" with anyone or refused to give names of anyone they did have contact with.
