Just checking my work here. And it’s a nice illustration that sometimes, “stuff happens” in the observational data. But the conclusion remains the same: There was no post-Super-Bowl explosion of new COVID-19 cases. Continue reading Post #1042, the non-explosion of cases post Super Bowl, revisited
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Post #1029: Post Super Bowl non-explosion of cases
Source: Calculated from NY Times Github COVID-19 data repository, data reported through 2/24/2021. Areas are defined as the counties currently within the Tampa/St. Petersburg and Kansas City KS/MO MSAs.
So far, I have found exactly one news article that actually followed up on the dire threat of a post-Super-Bowl explosion of cases. That one, lonely piece of reporting was from a TV station in the Tampa Bay area. Their conclusion is that, no, there was no uptick in cases following the Super Bowl. At least, not in the Tampa Bay area. Continue reading Post #1029: Post Super Bowl non-explosion of cases