SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – The thousands of motorcyclists who attended the Sturgis motorcycle rally may have left western South Dakota, but public fitness departments in several states are looking to measure how far and how temporarily the coronavirus has spread to bars, tattoo shops, and meetings before others have returned home in almost every state in the country.
From the city of Sturgis, which conducts massive testing for its estimated 7,000 residents, to fitness in at least 8 states, fitness officials are looking to track the 10-day collection epidemics that ended on August 16 to track an invisible virus. which has spread among bartenders and collectors, who then traveled to more than part of the counties of the United States.
Anonymous cell phone knowledge research from Camber Systems, a company that adds cell phone activity for fitness researchers, revealed that 61% of all U.S. counties. They were visited through someone who attended Sturgis, creating a medium comparable to a major U.S. city.
“Imagine looking for contacts for the entire city of (Washington), DC, but you also know that you have no distance, or that the distance is very, very limited, masking is limited,” said Navin Vembar, who co-founded Camber Systems. “All of this creates a very damaging scenario for other people everywhere. Searching for contacts becomes incredibly difficult.”
State fitness facilities reported 103 cases in citizens of South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming and Washington. South Dakota fitness officials said they did not know how many other people had been exposed and issued public warnings about imaginable exposure to COVID-19 in five businesses popular with cyclists.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Republican, has defied calls to cancel giant demonstrations and opposes them wearing masks. He welcomed the event, which in recent years generated about $800 million in tourism expenses, according to the State Department of Tourism.
“I sat at a bar standing side by side with boys. No one dressed in a mask,” said Stephen Sample, a rally that returned to Arizona last week.
He had gone to a bar where the fitness administration issued warnings, the One-Eyed Jack’s Saloon, but said he had not developed any symptoms of COVID-19. He talked about quarantine with his wife after his return, but he didn’t.
Other cyclists reported being in favor of COVID-19 after returning home and receiving negative results.
In a country where the state has been tasked with making the maximum of paintings to respond to the pandemic, it is virtually impossible to trace one and both infections of the outbreak. But the city of Sturgis is doing everything it can to prevent a local epidemic by organizing massive testing for asymptomatic people.
The city, which is a quiet tourist destination for up to 355 days of the year outdoors on the dates of the rally, has been a reluctant host this year. After many citizens opposed the demonstration being a pandemic, city officials made the decision to pay for the massive evidence with the money they had earned as a component of federal coronavirus relief funds.
Approximately 850 other people will be evaluated, according to Daniel Ainslie, the city’s director.
On Monday morning, Linda Chaplin drove with her husband for a test in the parking lot of the Sturgis Community Center. They had left the city during the rally, but the crowds that arrived before and after involved them.
While the effects of control will take a few days to treat, the region is already experiencing a buildup of coronavirus cases.
“For a long time, other people would say, “Well, do you know who has a COVID?” And I said, “No, I’m not, but I’m watching the news, ” Chaplin said. “Now I know other people we’ve heard about having COVID.”
While Chaplin said the other people he knew had not attended the rally, he said many citizens were relieved that it was over.
But like many places across the country, the city seeks to manage the tension between fitness and economic concerns. Some residents, such as Eunice Peck, were not involved in the prospect of an epidemic. She rented her space to collectors to earn extra money. He had moved away from the crowds that invaded the city center and did not feel like doing a test.
“It’s a very important thing for the city,” Peck said of the rally.
But occasions like Sturgis fear fitness experts, who see that infections spread independently of the barriers of cities and states. Without a nationally coordinated detection and detection system, containing infections in a situation like Sturgis is “almost impossible,” said Dr. Howard Koh, a professor at Harvard School of Public Health who worked in former President Barack Obama’s Department of Health and Social Services.
“We would like a finely orchestrated national formula and we are far from that,” he said. “We’re seeing an effort in 50 states, all with other instructions right now.”
Kris Ehresmann, director of infectious diseases at the Minnesota Department of Health, friday pleaded with others to quarantine themselves for two weeks if they attended the demonstration.
She said: “We hope to see many more Sturgis-related cases.”
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