Sturgis Bike Rally: Superspreading Event or Not?

IZA Institute of Labor Economics: “The Contagion Externality of a Superspreading Event: The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and COVID-19.”

Joseph J. Sabia, PhD, professor of economics and director, Center for Health Economics and Policy Studies, San Diego State University; research fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).

Thomas Lee, PhD, assistant professor of epidemiology, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Statement, Kristi Noem, governor, South Dakota, Sept. 8, 2020.

News briefing, South Dakota Department of Health, Sept. 8, 2020.

The National Bureau of Economic Research: “Black Lives Matter Protests, Social Distancing, and COVID-19,” “Risk Aversion, Offsetting Community Effects, and COVID-19: Evidence from an Indoor Political Rally.”