{"id":29353,"date":"2020-11-20T23:16:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T07:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29353"},"modified":"2020-11-20T23:16:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T07:16:51","slug":"sturgis-rally-blamed-for-covid-19-spread-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29353","title":{"rendered":"Sturgis rally blamed for COVID-19 spread in Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A South Dakota motorcycle rally attended by nearly half a million people earlier this year resulted in at least 86 cases of COVID-19 among residents of Minnesota, including one death, according to a report released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p>The report, which looked to find the impact of the rally on a neighboring state, found that of the 86 identified cases among Minnesotans, 35 had not gone to the event but were contacts of people who did.<\/p>\n<p>About one-third of Minnesota counties had a case associated with Sturgis rally, which took place over a 10-day period in August with no social distancing or mask requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The findings show the importance of wearing masks and following social distancing rules and other recommendations from public health officials in stopping the spread of COVID-19, the authors of the report wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese findings highlight the far-reaching effects that gatherings in one area might have on another area,\u201d the authors wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South Dakota motorcycle rally attended&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29354,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29353\/revisions\/29354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}