South Dakota health officials warned that a barbed wire coronavirus could have been transmitted to other customers during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
The South Dakota Department of Health said in a notice reported Tuesday that a customer at the One-Eyed Jack’s Saloon in Sturgis, SD, tested positive for coronavirus on August 11th.
Health officials instructed people at the bar between noon and 5.30pm daily to “check for symptoms” 14 days after the possible transmission date.
The visit of the infected customer fell during the 10-day motorcycle rally that drew more than 460,000 cars, The Associated Press reported. The estimated audience size was almost 8 percent less than last year.
Most people at the rally did not take coronavirus precautionary measures such as wearing masks and social distance, the AP noted.
Some public health experts said they were worried the rally could become a super-spreader event.
“Any kind of mass meeting will be difficult for contacts, and it will be more difficult if the people you are trying to track down are mobile,” said Amesh Adalja, who specializes in infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins University. told McClatchy News.
The city apparently has plans to test mass coronavirus to prevent it from spreading, according to the AP.
South Dakota has documented 10,566 COVID-19 cases, including 1,222 active cases, and 155 deaths, according to state data. The New York Times characterizes the state among those where new cases increase and reports an average of seven days of 104 new cases per day.
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