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Cellphone data tracks movements of hundreds of thousands of Americans traveling to and from South Dakota's Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and the Las Vegas Strip amid COVID-19
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Phone data has tracked the movements of Americans traveling to and from an annual motorcycle rally in South Dakota and those vacationing in Las Vegas

  • The maps created by data visualization company Tectonix show the extent of the widespread travel right across the country

  • The majority of those who traveled to Sturgis Motorcycle Rally came from the Midwest and South, according to the tracking data

  • Many came from Sunbelt states with large coronavirus outbreaks, including Texas, Arizona and Georgia

  • Another visualization related to Las Vegas shows exactly where people traveled to after visiting the Strip when casinos reopened for business back on June 4

  • The majority of visitors over a July weekend came from Southern California, Arizona and Texas

Posted by: Skidmark 2020-08-21
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