Sure, it's meant as an example of how large influxes of people into an area can potentially lead to superspreading-type events, and how common these are. That tiny town is an example of thousands of such places and events throughout the country.
Check out this graph from Arizona department of health 'Hospital COVID-like & Influenza-like illness Surveillance.'
Maybe it's spurious correlation, but I'd bet money the May 25th memorial day weekend had something to do with that big spike you see ramping up May 31. Memorial day also happened to feature thousands of people from another state flooding into Lake Havasu and other, similar cities without mask restrictions, and visiting bars, restaurants, etc.
Bear in mind, there were no mask restrictions in AZ before that peak.
Nobody has an RCT, so we're all just whiteboarding it to some extent.
> Maybe it's spurious correlation, but I'd bet money the May 25th memorial day weekend had something to do with that big spike you see ramping up May 31. Memorial day also happened to feature thousands of people from another state flooding into Lake Havasu and other, similar cities without mask restrictions, and visiting bars, restaurants, etc.
Maybe this is a spurious correlation too, but I'd bet money that the May 26th George Floyd protests had something to do with that big spike you see ramping up May 31 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests.
Check out this graph from Arizona department of health 'Hospital COVID-like & Influenza-like illness Surveillance.'
https://www.azdhs.gov/preparedness/epidemiology-disease-cont...
Maybe it's spurious correlation, but I'd bet money the May 25th memorial day weekend had something to do with that big spike you see ramping up May 31. Memorial day also happened to feature thousands of people from another state flooding into Lake Havasu and other, similar cities without mask restrictions, and visiting bars, restaurants, etc.
Bear in mind, there were no mask restrictions in AZ before that peak.
Nobody has an RCT, so we're all just whiteboarding it to some extent.