More than 460,000 people attended the 10-day event, which did not enforce social distancing guidelines or the wearing of masks.
, who backed the event to go ahead amid the outbreak as it provides a major economic boost to the state"Under the guise of academic research, it's nothing short of an attack on those who exercised their personal freedom to attend"Predictably, some in the media breathlessly report on this non-peer-reviewed model, built on incredibly faulty assumptions that do not reflect the actual facts and data.patients in the hospital at our peak. Today, we have less than 70.
"I look forward to good journalists, credible academics, and honest citizens repudiating this nonsense."
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