{"id":4174,"date":"2020-08-19T11:25:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T18:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=4174"},"modified":"2020-08-19T11:25:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T18:25:57","slug":"propublica-las-vegas-is-gambling-with-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/08\/19\/propublica-las-vegas-is-gambling-with-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"ProPublica &#8211; Las Vegas Is \u201cGambling With Lives\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/cellphone-data-shows-how-las-vegas-is-gambling-with-lives-across-the-country\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">article at www.propublica.org<\/a> on August 17, the author, Marshall Allen, shows some alarming data points concerning the spread of the pandemic from Las Vegas.<br \/>\nProPublica used cell phone data from a weekend of people who were in Las Vegas and then traced their travels afterwards. The web of their cross contagion is shown below:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets-c3.propublica.org\/images\/articles\/_threeTwo1600w\/20200818-us-map-vegas.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The chances of America ever getting control of this pandemic is zero as long as we have lax controls in places like Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The cellphone analysis highlights a reason the virus keeps spreading, said Oscar Alleyne, an epidemiologist and chief program officer with the National Association of County and City Health Officials. \u201cPeople have been highly mobile, and as a result, it makes sense why we see the continuation of the surge.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article at www.propublica.org on August 17, the author, Marshall Allen, shows some alarming data points concerning the spread of the pandemic from Las Vegas. ProPublica used cell phone data from a weekend of people who were in Las Vegas and then traced their travels afterwards. The web of their cross contagion is shown &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/08\/19\/propublica-las-vegas-is-gambling-with-lives\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2520,13,17],"tags":[2758,2635,2584,2482,2659,2756,2622,1376,2757],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-4174","6":"format-standard","7":"category-pandemic","8":"category-politics","9":"category-thinking-about","10":"post_tag-cellphone","11":"post_tag-contact-tracing","12":"post_tag-coronavirus-pandemic","13":"post_tag-covid-19","14":"post_tag-epidemic","15":"post_tag-las-vegas","16":"post_tag-pandemic","17":"post_tag-propublica","18":"post_tag-tourists"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4176,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions\/4176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}