Tulsa Official: Trump Rally ‘Likely Contributed’ To 500 New COVID Cases This Week

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa that drew thousands of people in late June, along with large protests that accompanied it, “likely contributed” to a dramatic surge in new coronavirus cases, Tulsa City-County Health Department Director Dr. Bruce Dart said Wednesday.


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Don’t know if this has been mentioned or not but…

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Wow, they infected more people in Tulsa than attended Donnie’s coronation.

Winning!

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Again, as with everyother covid testing metric the true number is likely 10x the reported number

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Shall we start referring to Donnie as “Typhoid Trump?”

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getting to the point that trump is the disease.
it’s like touching a spot of grease. somehow it ends up all over you.
typical trump, ETTD or gets sick or goes bankrupt.
unfortunately, it’s our country at stake and it’s losing.

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“likely”

{AP} “Where danger is our middle name”.

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Better in Tulsa than in my town. But is not like they pointed a gun on them to force them to go and see the dear leader, the moronic groupies are probably glad to be sick now, badge of honor or something.

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Ok Gov Sununu, what say you ? Got a spine anywhere in that body of yours? Subject NH to infected droplets from a traveling clown car show… and anyone unlucky enough to encounter attendees while shopping or working.

These govs are horrible people. Wrapped up in a neatly white veneer of GOP stupidity.

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Considering we don’t yet fully know the long-term health effects caused by COVID, and what we do know suggests that there may very well be numerous long-term effects, repeating this fallacy is irresponsible at best.

Furthermore, if by “mild to moderate symptoms” means “you didn’t end up on a ventilator,” the above oft-repeated quote is even more infuriating. Because many people who didn’t end up in the hospital still suffered from a whole bunch of awful symptoms that lingered on for far longer than a few weeks. Yes, even young, middle-aged, and otherwise healthy people. I count myself among them.

Of course I immediately went back up to look at the by-line and it’s AP. Do we have to see this garbage repeated here?

This BS minimizing of COVID symptoms is junk reporting. Where are they even getting this from? Nobody has gone and done a survey of everyone who didn’t end up in a hospital in order to accurately assess the symptoms. But repeating it over and over just adds to the lie that it’s only a problem for old people, and thereby contributes to dangerous misinformation that just continues the spread.

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Nice how some folks can fathom cause and effect.

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:100:

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No one anticipated this, right?

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Should be titled “Houston mayor cancels Texas GOP coronavirus party”

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Yeah who could have known?

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This is Trump…

Not only KAG-ging (Killing American Geriatrics) for Wallstreet and exposing students to Covid…

Trump is making his own base Covid infected and potentially killing them!

BUT

Who cares as long as Trump can get his kicks from in-person rallies!

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“A spokesman for the Trump campaign didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.”

They were busy printing out a massive Mission Accomplished banner.

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Seriously, we are the only state that NY times was showing decline in cases.

WTF?

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Sununu is lying about the data?

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“I would view it as something that just surprised the whole world.”
— Dr. Toadglans mit der Bone Spurs, epidemiologist

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