Trump’s rallies have left a trail of Covid clusters across the United States, report says
One county in Wisconsin sees 67 per cent increase in cases in the two weeks after event
Cases of coronavirus have spiked in a series of states where Donald Trump has held campaign rallies, according to a new analysis of infection rates.
In Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin the number of coronavirus cases rose at a faster rate after the rally than before, researchers at USA Today found.
In five counties across those three states – Blue Earth and Beltrami counties in Minnesota; Lackawanna and Dauphin counties in Pennsylvania; and Marathon county, Wisconsin – there were 1,500 more cases in the two weeks after Mr Trump’s rally than the two weeks before.
One of the rallies in particular, in Beltrami county, Minnesota, was officially designated a “super-spreader event” after 16 cases were confirmed among attendees, and two people were taken to hospital.
The paper calculated that the president has held at least 36 events since mid August – most of them outdoors, at airport hangars.
