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While public discourse around college football’s return has focused on the student-athlete risk, fan attendance could have a greater impact on overall public health. For the programs still planning to play this fall, yet another decision looms: Will there be fans at games? And if so, how many?
The Trump administration wants to use Americans’ smartphone location data to help track and combat the spread of coronavirus.
President Trump urged Americans on March 16 to avoid gatherings of 10 or more people in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
The very sight of fans crowding together and screaming aloud at sporting events should be frightening to anyone who knows how the coronavirus spreads and kills.
Rachel Maddow reports on politicians of a certain stripe who seem to view meat plant workers as being different from “regular people,” and shares a data visualization that shows how coronavirus can spread from meat plants, well beyond the plant workers.
The data shows that the COVID-19 outbreaks currently threatening meat supply chains in the US could have impacts beyond plants’ local areas.
Over the past week, there has been an average of 100 new COVID-19 cases per day in South Dakota, a rate that has steadily risen since last month.
Las Vegas casinos, open for months now, are a likely hotbed for the spread of COVID-19. For many reasons, contact tracing has proved next to impossible as tourists return to homes across the U.S.
In the earlier days of the coronavirus pandemic, an animated map from a company called Tectonix went viral. It showed spring breakers leaving a Florida beach to return to their homes across the US, as a series of tiny orange dots congregating on a beach in early March scattered across the country over the following two weeks.