Will Protests Increase the Spread of COVID-19 ? - IEEE Spectrum
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Si les manifestations pouvaient mettre fin au #racisme institutionnalisé et aux #violences_policières, l’augmentation de la #morbi-mortalité à court terme du fait du #COVID-19, serait, sans commune mesure, compensée à long terme,
“Institutional racism is a public health issue. Police brutality is a public health issue,” says Joshua Weitz, a quantitative biologist at Georgia Tech, who has developed a model of COVID-19 spread in Georgia. “COVID-19 represents an ongoing threat and we must work collectively to control new transmission, yet we cannot wait to address systemic issues related to racism,” he says.
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“These immediate health impacts need to be weighed against the potential for long-term reform,” Bedford wrote in his tweets. “Because of the pandemic, we’re in a terrible situation where addressing systemic racism and bringing [the] economy back online carry health risks.”
But there is a way to attend the protests while trying to reduce risk and disease spread. “I participated in multiple Black Lives Matter protests in Atlanta this past weekend,” says Weitz. “In doing so, I wore a mask and tried to distance whenever possible.” Outdoor protests are likely to carry relatively less risk than indoor, and individuals who attend a protest should seek COVID-19 testing afterward, he says.