Trump’s Tulsa Rally Drew People From Dozens of Virus Hot Spots in U.S.
- Rally-goers came from 44 counties, 33 with rising virus cases
- Too soon to know whether the event acted as a ‘super-spreader’
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Mobile-phone location data from people who attended President Donald Trump’s rally in Oklahoma show that most came from outside Tulsa, hailing from at least 44 counties spread across 12 states. Covid-19 is on the rise in 33 of them.
Trump supporters traveled from across the Oklahoma region for the June 20 event, according to a Bloomberg analysis of data from SafeGraph. They didn’t fill the arena though and public health experts say the extra space may have lessened the risks of transmission.