Fun with MA COVID-19 Reporting 31-Dec-2020 - the clusters


Taking another look at the clusters the state is reporting again today based on their tracing.

Some take aways from the data:
  • It's unsurprising to see cases from Colleges & Universities going down given that many have been sending students home for weeks now, if they hadn't closed down the campus a month ago after Thanksgiving break.
  • Social Gatherings, Industrial Settings, and Restaurants & Food Courts increased dramatically and pulled away from K-12 schools (causing their tier to break apart the separation was so drastic).  Meanwhile, Retail & Services reduced slightly.
  • Restaurants have nearly 5 times the number of cases from clusters as Retail.
  • Child Care, Hospitals, Other Healthcare, and Restaurants & Food Courts increased by 30 cases or more while others increased by 15 or fewer from last week's tally.

In the last month, if we sort by number of cases and ignore residential-based settings

  1. Tier 1 - Childcare: 578 cases from 312 clusters
  2. Tier 2 - Hospitals: 396 cases from 48 clusters
  3. Tier 3 (200s / low 300's
    1. Social Gatherings: 337 cases from 87 clusters
    2. Restaurants & Food Courts: 301 cases from 75 clusters
    3. Industrial Settings: 289 cases from 79 clusters
  4. Tier 3 - 
    1. K-12 schools: 185 cases from 89 clusters
    2. Other Healthcare: 177 cases from 48 clusters
  5. Tier 4 (nickname: The Others)
    1. Other Workplaces: 125 cases from 47 clusters
  6. Tier 5 maxes out at 75 cases from 33 clusters at Organized Athletics/Camps and also includes Retail & Services, Colleges & Universities, Places of Worship, Other Food Establishments, Recreation/Cultural, Office, and Other, in that order.
Stay safe. Stay sane. Stay informed. Stay paying attention to the facts on the ground instead of perceptions.

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