Did Floyd Protests Lead to a Virus Surge? Here's What We Know
NEW YORK -- For more than two months, authorities had been urging New Yorkers to stay indoors and keep their distance from others. But after the police killed George Floyd in Minneapolis, tens of thousands of New Yorkers poured into the streets, day and night, to protest police brutality and racism.Epidemiologists braced for a surge of new coronavirus cases. But it has not come yet.On May 27, the day before the protests began in New York City, some 754 COVID-19 cases were diagnosed, according to
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