Posted on 10/27/2020 5:18:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Do rallies by President Donald Trump decrease the number of coronavirus cases?
According to a recent analysis by the far-left Center for American Progress, they might.
At the very least, the data suggest little to no correlation between the two events.
The propagandist group, founded by Hillary Clinton flunky John Podesta, analyzed 22 recent Trump rallies and determined that in 11 of them cases of coronavirus increased after Trump’s visits.
That means, of course, that in the other 50 percent, they did not.
“In the other 11 instances, the number of new cases in the local area appeared consistent with the pre-event trend or declined after the rally,” the CFAP reluctantly acknowledged in the eighth paragraph of its so-called study.
“This category included rallies in Phoenix, Arizona; Yuma, Arizona; Jacksonville, Florida; Freeland, Michigan; Duluth, Minnesota; Minden, Nevada; Fayetteville, North Carolina; Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Mosinee, Wisconsin,” it said.
Yuma, which saw a spike of 188 new cases on Aug. 1, was down to only 7 new cases by Sept. 8, following Trump’s Aug. 18 rally.
Its 7-day average went from 139.43 at its peak to 11.86, a reduction of 93 percent.
Yuma, Ariz., saw a 93 percent decline in COVID cases from August to September. / IMAGE: screenshot via Center for American Progress
Moreover, CFAP noted that “counties that had a lower COVID-19 incidence—a measure of new cases per capita—prior to the rally were more likely to have a visible increase in cases after the rally, perhaps because any uptick in cases was more likely to stand out against the pre-event level.”
In other words, CFAP’s junk-science promulgators likely would have reported a single case in a county with no prior cases as a 100 percent uptick, and so forth.
(Excerpt) Read more at headlineusa.com ...
Happy, hopeful people don’t get sick as often.
Herd immunity in action. Low-exposure is the key. It allows the immune system to code and produce anti-bodies without overwhelming the immune response.
Exposure or vaccine is the only way to achieve herd immunity which. That is the only way it dies out -there’s no one available to infect.
Podesta IS a virus!
With God, all things are possible!
So a coin flip. Random chance.
Either way, how does one measure cause and effect correlations?
Cascadia.
If democrats could do math this study would matter...
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