Anyone joining the protests should be aware that there is a risk. But that isn’t an argument for people to stay home.
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Those arguments aren’t always made in good faith, but the concerns have some validity. How big is the risk that the protests could set off a new wave of infections across the country? As tens of thousands of Americans have taken to the streets in recent days, transmission of the coronavirus is still rampant across the U.S. As many scientists and doctors have agreed—and as the protesters themselves have argued—police brutality against the black community is. And it’s not lost on the protesters that the same community already so devastated by the pandemic is now most likely to suffer from the virus’s spread at the protests.
the belief that they help slow the spread by reducing how far, and in what quantity, droplets travel, but it’s hard to say by how much.This is the main reason to worry. “It’s kind of a setup for viral transmission,” said Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco. “People trumps everything, every other environmental factor. So it doesn’t matter if it’s hot, it doesn’t matter if it’s sunny, with UV lights.
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