{"id":418,"date":"2020-07-02T13:05:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T20:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=418"},"modified":"2020-07-02T13:05:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T20:05:54","slug":"research-determines-protests-did-not-cause-spike-in-coronavirus-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/07\/02\/research-determines-protests-did-not-cause-spike-in-coronavirus-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Determines Protests Did Not Cause Spike In Coronavirus Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In the immediate aftermath of Floyd\u2019s death, health officials expressed great concern that protesters, potentially yelling and shouting in very close proximity, would quickly spread the virus, which might lead to devastating outbreaks.<\/p>\n<p>However, researchers found \u201cno evidence that urban protests reignited Covid-19 case growth during the more than three weeks following protest onset.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, they determined that, based on cellphone data, \u201ccities which had protests saw an increase in social distancing behavior for the overall population relative to cities that did not,\u201d leading to \u201cmodest evidence of a small longer-run case growth decline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study\u2019s lead author, Dhaval Dave of Bentley University, said, \u201cIn many cities, the protests actually seemed to lead to a net increase in social distancing, as more people who did not protest decided to stay off the streets.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/tommybeer\/2020\/07\/01\/research-determines-protests-did-not-cause-spike-in-coronavirus-cases\/?utm_campaign=forbes&#038;utm_source=facebook&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_term=Gordie%2F&#038;fbclid=IwAR2YGR1Ss5VKZGyF79LMmfB4pO8uY2lgGKCu0gefNTT862SCUx5GwOyrphc#2cfd74c87dac\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>Research Determines Protests Did Not Cause Spike In Coronavirus Cases<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the immediate aftermath of Floyd\u2019s death, health officials expressed great concern that protesters, potentially yelling and shouting in very close proximity, would quickly spread the virus, which might lead to devastating outbreaks. However, researchers found \u201cno evidence that urban protests reignited Covid-19 case growth during the more than three weeks following protest onset.\u201d In &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/07\/02\/research-determines-protests-did-not-cause-spike-in-coronavirus-cases\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}