In Oklahoma, the number of daily new COVID-19 cases is trending upwards. Yet, President Donald Trump plans to hold his first re-election rally for months in Tulsa this Saturday, inside a 19,000-capacity arena, despite warnings that the event is hazardous to public health. Modeling of infection rates among the population suggests that dozens of people who show up to the Trump rally at Tulsa’s BOK Center may be harboring the COVID-19 virus. Many of those infected with the new strain of coronavirus are asymptomatic. An event risk planning tool developed at Georgia Tech uses real-time COVID-19 data from across the states to estimate the chances that infected people will be at an event, also taking into account the likely crowd size. This tool shows that an event with 19,000 people in Oklahoma has more than a 99 percent chance that at least one person there will be infected with the COVID-19 virus. Professor Joshua Weitz of Georgia Tech leads the team in the biological sciences department that built the tool. He cited the circa 1,650 new confirmed cases in Oklahoma over the past fortnight and said a conservative estimate would put that as a 10:1 undercount of the reality. Not… Read full this story
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