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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
(CNN) The motorcycle rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, in August has been linked to a Covid-19 outbreak in Minnesota, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, highlighting how one state's lax rules during the pandemic affect others with stricter measures in place.
The 10-day event is a long-standing tradition that usually attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors from across the country. Despite opposition from local residents this year, the rally took place, complete with crowded bars and nearby concerts.
This year, about 460,000 people attended, according to the report, published Friday in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
In neighboring Minnesota, the state's health department investigated a Covid-19 outbreak tied to the rally and found at least 51 residents had attended the rally and became sick, and an additional 35 people were infected after coming into contact with a person who went to the rally, the report said. Those 35 people were household, social and workplace contacts, it said.
Of those 86 cases, four people were hospitalized, and one died.
In early September, CNN reported Minnesota's health department identified a Covid-19 death stemming from the rally. A spokesman for the department previously said the person was in their 60s, had been hospitalized in the ICU and had underlying health conditions.
About one third of all Minnesota's counties had at least one case associated with the rally, the report says.
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That's big news. .012% of the people from Sturgis went back to Min with Covid.
51 people out of 460,000.
It's not good they spread it as they probably had no idea they had it but nonetheless what rules were or were not followed back in Minnesota at the workplace, etc?