Fun with MA COVID-19 Reporting 14-Aug-2021 Edition (Clusters)

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. 

Restaurants & Food Courts continue to have a massive lead on everyone with more than twice the number of cases of the next highest tier and more cases than all but the next highest tier combined.  Social Gatherings continue to maintain a significant lead on the third highest tier and caused 18% of the non-residence-based settings' cases.

Retail & Services and Organized Athletics & Camps each more than doubled their cases.  Child Care, Recreational/Cultural, K-12 Schools each increased by more than 50%.  Of all of these, Child Care is raises the biggest alarms to me, as they were already at the top of the Medium Tier last week with a not-insignificant space between them and the next setting as well as their past demonstrated ability to drive spread.

(next to each current status is the difference in cases week-over-week in parenthesis)  

  • Super High Tier - Restaurants apparently decided enough was enough and ended the question of whether there was a race between them and Social Gatherings
    • Restaurants & Food Courts - 55 clusters causing 591 cases (+56)
  • High Tier
    • Social Gatherings - 40 clusters causing 236 cases (+42)
  • Medium-High Tier
    • Child Care - 45 clusters causing 146 cases (+58 or +69%)
  • Medium Tier
    • Travel & Lodging - 7 clusters causing 62 cases (+12)
    • Recreational/Cultural - 4 cluster causing 61 cases (+22 or +56%)
    • Organized Athletics & Camps - 14 clusters causing 53 cases (+29 or +120%)
    • Hospitals - 12 clusters causing 44 cases (+11 or +33%)
    • Retail & Services - 6 cluster causing 34 cases (+23 or +200%)
    • Low Tier 
        • K-12 Schools - 7 clusters causing 21 cases (+10 or +90%)
        • Other - 3 clusters causing 15 case (-14 or reduced to half the previous cases)
        • Other Workplaces - 6 clusters causing 13 cases (-4 or reduced to three-quarters the previous cases) 
        • Industrial Settings - 8 clusters causing 11 cases (+9)
        • Places of Worship - 4 clusters causing 10 cases (+2)
        • Colleges & Universities - 2 clusters causing 7 cases (same as last week)
        • Other Healthcare - 3 clusters causing 4 cases (-2 or reduced to two-thirds the previous cases)
        • Offices - 1 cluster causing 2 cases (same as last week)
      • No Clusters Remaining Open
        • Other Food Establishments (same as last week)
      Stay safe. Stay informed.

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