Fun with MA COVID-19 Reporting 11-Jul-2021 Edition (Clusters)
It's been more than 3 weeks, so let's see how the clusters are doing and which ones have shifted in the race. Just a friendly reminder that the residence-based settings are removed on account of, well, you can't really prevent spread within a place of living, the whole effort has to be preventing it from spreading outside and coming in.
One quick note: as cases reduce, high risk places become lower risk given the smaller spread in general. The below, therefore, really just shows us which activities we may want to contemplate limiting or reducing or maintaining our preventative measures while engaging in activities there (as opposed to taking all measures to avoid where at all possible).
- Child Care Tier - Child Care is, as ever, the top spreading setting outside those that are residence-based. This doesn't really tell us much except that, well, you know, kids do indeed spread COVID-19. Why this is important is that child care is often for kids under 12 and kids under 12 happen to be the only ones not eligible for vaccination... so... again, with the whole spreading in general is bad and we should reduce it to protect those that aren't vaccinated thing. [Eyes the dead horse I'm beating] Ok, let's move on.
- Child Care - 32 clusters causing 26 cases.
- High Tier - So, this is where it gets interesting and you may want to contemplate the changes...
- Social Gatherings- 27 clusters causing 20 cases (jumping up a tier by increasing past several other settings)
- Industrial Settings - 15 clusters causing 17 cases
- Medium Tier -
- Hospitals - 5 clusters causing 8 cases
- Other Workplaces - 3 clusters causing 7 cases
- Restaurants & Food Courts - 8 clusters causing 2 cases
- Places of Worship - 4 clusters causing 2 cases
- Other Healthcare - 2 clusters causing 2 case (strangely static, these numbers are the same as over a month ago)
- Low Tier (still having open clusters but no new confirmed cases in 3 weeks)
- K-12 Schools - 16 clusters causing 0 cases
- Organized Athletics & Camps - 5 clusters causing 0 cases
- Colleges & Universities - 4 clusters causing 0 cases
- Retail & Services - 3 clusters causing 0 cases
- Recreation/Cultural - 3 clusters causing 0 cases
- Other Food Establishments - 1 cluster causing 0 cases
- Other - 1 cluster causing 0 cases
- Offices - 1 cluster causing 0 cases
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