A Tulsa, Okla. health official said Wednesday President Trump’s rally and the accompanying protests “likely contributed” to the surge in COVID-19 cases in the county.
Bruce Dart, the Tulsa City-County Health Department director, during a Wednesday press conference attributed the increase in new cases over the past two days to the rally and the associated protests. On Monday, the county identified 261 new cases, the highest daily increase during the pandemic, and on Tuesday, officials confirmed 206 new cases, he said.
“In the past two days, we’ve had almost 500 new cases, and we knew we had several large events a little over two weeks ago, which is about right, so I guess we just connect the dots,” Dart said.
The health department has a policy not to publicly identify settings where people may have contracted the virus.
But when asked how Tulsa County ended up having the most cases in the state, Dart said “we did have some significant events in the past few weeks that more than likely contributed to that.”
“We have to follow different rules now,” he said, adding “If we’re going out in public, and we’re engaging with other people, and we’re not taking precautions, we’re gonna have transmissions — I mean, that’s just the bottom line.”
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