Around Brooklyn: Virus cases in NY declined despite protests
Virus cases in NY declined despite protests
Many experts predicted an increase in coronavirus cases in New York City after the George Floyd protests, but it didn’t happen. On May 27, just before the protests, 754 cases were diagnosed. At the end of the first week of protests, the city was recording about 500 cases a day, and the number of cases went down into the low 400s after the second week of protests. Some experts say that the number of cases was already on the decline when the protests began. It’s possible that cases have increased in certain neighborhoods or clusters, but not enough data is available to support such a conclusion, according to The New York Times.
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