COVID-19 rates spiked in county NASCAR race had 20,000 fans. But officials don`t blame the gathering.
(WorldNews Sport)

Three weeks have passed since roughly 20,000 fans sat sprinkled throughout the grandstands at Bristol Motor Speedway to watch NASCAR`s All-Star Race. The race marked the largest sporting event with spectators since the pandemic shuttered the sports world in March. In Tennessee`s Sullivan County, where the speedway is located, there has been a spike in positive COVID-19 cases in the weeks following the July 15 race, but public health officials said Wednesday that they have not identified an association or cluster linked to the NASCAR event. `We were seeing an upswing prior to the race and that upswing has continued at a pretty steady rate,` Dr. Andrew Stephen May, the medical director of the...