COVID-19: Study links massive motorcycle rally in South Dakota to more than 250,000 cases

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KABC) -- An eye-popping new study is linking last month's massive motorcycle rally in Sturgis, South Dakota to more than a quarter of a million COVID cases.

Researchers from San Diego State are branding the 10-day rally a super-spreader event, linking nearly 20% of all the new U.S. COVID cases in the month of August back to the festival.
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Even worse, the study says the estimated public health costs to treat all those patients will be roughly $12.2 billion.

So far, only 1 death has been traced to the rally.
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