House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Monday partly blamed spikes in the number of coronavirus cases nationwide on demonstrations in support of Black Lives Matter.
It's not yet clear how the protests have impacted the spread of the coronavirus. But one study from the National Bureau of Economic Research has found no evidence that the protests have led to a spike in the number of coronavirus cases.
"We phased in the openings and we knew something like this could happen but maybe not to this extent," McCarthy, a Republican, said in an interview on CNBC's Squawk Box. "The bars but also compounded on that, the protests," McCarthy said without citing any specific evidence linking protests to a rise in cases. "When I looked at that drone view of [Los Angeles], where it was almost a mile-long shoulder-to-shoulder of people and they're expressing, they're vocal ... and now we're finding that's the easiest way to transmit to one another, the long periods of time next to one another.
Demonstrations have occurred for weeks in states like New York, but there's been a steady decline in the number of new cases since the state has moved deeper into its reopening efforts. Earlier this month, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo encouraged anyone engaging in protest or demonstration to get tested for the coronavirus.
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