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- ABC News
- June 3, 2020
Mass protests could lead to another COVID-19 wave
Did you protest this weekend? Get a COVID-19 test.
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\"Health is our top priority, and with more testing capacity now available, we're inviting anyone who has participated in a demonstration over the past few days to come get tested at one of the more than 150 locations across the city,\" said Patrick Gallahue, a spokesperson for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
The health department website includes a tool for finding the NYC testing site nearest to you.
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The next two weeks are going to give us a better sense about whether case counts will rise, according to Osterholm.
\"Hospitalizations could be 20 days away before you really start seeing that picking up,\" he noted.
Of course, those timelines assume that people who get sick will get tested. They also assume that protests will start to diminish.
Continuing protests \"could take transmission into a whole other week,\" Osterholm said.
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