Bikers and motorcycle enthusiasts have descended on South Dakota's Black Hills for the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, again raising concerns that COVID-19 will rapidly spread among the hundreds-of-thousands expected at the event.
. “That makes it hard to imagine why there would be an increased risk of potential COVID transmission, but it's what is done in Sturgis – it's indoors, in the bars, it's in the tattoo parlors. It's in all the inside activities that really put people at increased risk.”
“There’ll be lots of people there that only engage in the outdoor activities, which I think are probably very low-risk,” Baral told USA TODAY. “And then there’ll be lots of folks that engage in indoor activities, including in bars and in people’s homes and those things, which probably are likely have higher risks of transmission associated with them.”
Republican Gov. Kristi Noem has given the rally her blessing and will appear in a charity ride. The event is a boon for tourism, powering over $800 million in sales, according to the state Department of Tourism.“Anytime you have a large group of people come together there are risks, but with the proper precautions and mitigation practices, it can be done safely,” Daniel Bucheli, director of communications at the South Dakota Department of Health, wrote in an email to USA TODAY.
Only about 46% of adults in the county that hosts Sturgis are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC, compared with 60.6% nationwide. Vaccination rates were similarly low in the five counties where most 2020 rallygoers hailed from, according to an analysis of cellphone data from the Center for New Data.
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