Did the #BlackLivesMatter protests lead to the surge in SARS-CoV-2?
Short answer: No
Longer answer: Nooooooooo

This is a racist and fact-free claim by those whose goal is to shift blame from an incompetent federal response onto young people of color.
Got the receipts too (1/5)

In NYC, hospitalizations are at their lowest since March. The city hosted some of the largest BLM protests. (2/5)

Same can be said for Philadelphia, which had weeks of BLM protests. (3/5)

How about Minnesota, the state where George Floyd was murdered?
Hospitalizations are down ~ 65% from their high in May. (4/5)

I'm using hospitalizations as a metric as it's independent of testing increases.

So what caused the surge? Premature reopening of the economy in populous dense cities and states. Those of us in infectious diseases have been saying this since May. (5/5)