“We demonstrate that cities which had protests saw an increase in social distancing behavior for the overall population relative to cities that did not,” the researchers said in the paper, Black Lives Matter Protests, Social Distancing, and COVID-19, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. “In addition, we find no evidence that net COVID-19 case growth differentially rose following the onset of Black Lives Matter protests, and even modest evidence of a small longer-run case growth decline.”
Protests against police brutality and systemic racism most likely did not spark coronavirus uptick: study
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