Fun with MA COVID-19 Reporting 26-Dec-2021 Edition (Clusters) (from 23-Dec-2021 state report)

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, so the effort has to be preventing it from spreading outside and coming in. 

Before we get into the non-residence-based settings, I'd like to take a moment and reflect on the fact that Long Term Care Facilities have been seeing a rapid increase.  Senior Living is a different setting (Senior Living is "Assisted living facilities, retirement communities, senior housing" whereas Long Term Care Facilities is "Nursing homes, skilled nursing"), and Senior Living has been above 100 cases each week but has been decreasing... though not nearly quickly to outpace the increases to Long Term  Care Facilities that have gone up roughly 400 cases in the last 2 weeks, or roughly 2/3.  Long Term Care Facilities is now at 1,064.

Notable this week:  Child Care has finally potentially started going down, but only slightly and it still leads the pack by a significant amount.  It still has more than three times the next up non-residential settings and 1.5 times all other non-residential settings combined.  K-12 Schools also saw a reduction, though staying far and away above the next setting thereafter and increasing the overall number of open clusters slightly. 

  • Child Care Tier
    • Child Care - 405 clusters causing 861 cases 
  • K-12 Schools Tier
    • K-12 Schools - 117 clusters causing 233 cases 
      • High Tier
        • Hospitals - 22 clusters causing 65 cases
      • MediumTier
          • Social Gatherings - 27 clusters causing 41 cases 
          • Organized Athletics & Camps - 23 clusters causing 40 cases 
          • Recreational/Cultural - 8 cluster causing 27 cases
        • Low Tier
          • Other Healthcare - 13 cluster causing 23 cases
          • Other Workplaces - 11 clusters causing 23 cases 
          • Industrial Settings - 13 clusters causing 18 cases
          • Retail & Services - 11 cluster causing 18 cases 
            • Restaurants & Food Courts - 5 cluster causing 17 cases 
            • Colleges & Universities - 10 clusters causing 15 cases
            • Places of Worship - 9 cluster causing 8 cases 
            • Offices - 5 clusters causing 2 cases
            • Other - 2 clusters causing 2 cases
          • No cases but still have clusters that have not yet been closed
            • Travel & Lodging - 1 cluster
            • Other Food Establishments - 1 cluster
          Stay safe. Stay informed.

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