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 |