Will Protests Lead to a Second Wave?

What public health experts say about potential Covid-19 infections

Coronavirus Blog Team
Medium Coronavirus Blog
2 min readJun 1, 2020

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Could the protests result in a second wave of Covid-19 infections? Protests following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police continued through the weekend in cities throughout the United States. As the New York Times reports, some public health experts worry that the gatherings of thousands of people could quickly spread the coronavirus. Already over 100,000 Americans have died, and those deaths have been disproportionately Black Americans. While…

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