9 COVID-19 cases linked to Trump rally last month, with 2 hospitalized
Source: ABC News
The Minnesota Department of Health has identified nine coronavirus cases in people who reported attending President Donald Trump's rally in Bemidji, Minnesota, last month, with one patient currently in the intensive care unit.
While the health department cautioned it is uncertain whether those individuals contracted the virus at the rally or somewhere else, spokesperson Scott Smith told ABC News that "based on case characteristics" in Beltrami County, where Bemidji is located, the Trump rally on Sept. 18, along with a wedding that took place on Sept. 19, appears to be "likely drivers of increases in COVID-19 cases" in the county.
"We cannot definitively say for those cases who did not report either attending a political rally and/or attending a wedding where they were exposed to SARS-CoV-2," Smith said. "However, these events appear, based on case characteristics, to be likely drivers of increases in COVID-19 cases in Beltrami County."
According to Smith, since Sept. 1, there have been 278 cases among Beltrami County residents, and 43% of the cases occurred two to 10 days after the Sept. 18 rally and a wedding held on Sept. 19. By case interview, Smith said, 15 cases have been associated with the wedding and nine cases associated with the rally and an additional two cases were associated with a counter-political rally on the same day. Another eight cases attended weddings outside of the county.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/9-covid-19-cases-linked-to-trump-rally-last-month-with-2-hospitalized/ar-BB19SyHl
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