Blog Post Date: Oct 1st, 2020
Blog Post Last Update: Oct 1st, 2020
Sturgis super spreader event
We saw how the Sturgis biker event was a super spreader event that has now caused cases to explode in many states in the midwest and many states in the west that are close to South Dakota.
The blog post about this is here:
https://corona-virusblog.netlify.app/blog/sturgis-super-spreader-event
Here you can see the cases / deaths at Sturgis (Meade county) and the 4 neighboring counties (Butte, Custer, Lawrence, Pennington) at the Data analytics site and you can see the daily changes.
https://corona-virus.dev/app/reports/cvus/cvuSuperSpreaders
Colleges / Universities are super spreaders
Colleges / universities with in-person classes are essentially super spreader events. The kids in most campuses haven't stopped partying even with fairly strict rules in place to prevent the spread of the disease on the campuses.
I am writing a series of blog posts where I track the spread of #COVID in college towns and its surrounding counties. It will show the growth of the cases from a week to 4 weeks ago.
My goal is to show that this will not just hurt the Red states (where the effect will be more severe because of lack of social distancing, lack of mask enforcement rules, lack of testing etc.), but also the Blue states. Kids will be kids in all 50 states.
North Carolina Colleges Monitored:
- Duke (Durham, Orange county)
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Durham, Orange county)
- University of North Carolina, Charlotte (Mecklenburg county)
- North Carolina State University, Raleigh (Wake county)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ListofcollegesanduniversitiesinNorth_Carolina
Cases and Deaths Snapshot on Sep 30th:
Cases and Deaths as of today:
You can see the latest cases and deaths numbers for Durham, Mecklenburg, Orange, Wake counties here