Fun with MA COVID-19 Reporting 07-Jan-2022 Edition (Clusters) (from 06-Jan-2022 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. 

Also, all of this should be taken with a grain of salt.  For one thing, it relies of humans performing tracking (and the memory of others) when those at the top don't appear to be concerned.  For another, people who home-test and do not then go get tested by an organization are not being reported and therefore are not traced.

Before we get into the non-residence-based settings, another quick update on Long Term Care Facilities, which I've commented on the last two weeks.  This setting has increased from 1,064 cases in the report on Dec 23, 2021, to 1,324 the week of Dec 30, 2021, to 2,464 in yesterday's report.  This week, we also saw Senior Living, which had been declining little by little, increase from 97 to 160.

Notable this week:  Child Care and K-12 Schools continue to decline in cases, I suspect still due to vacations given that the cluster end date for this week's report is January 1... on the other hand, Organized Athletics & Camps still hasn't seen much a decrease this week.  Hospitals nearly doubled their cases (maybe that's what happens when you overwhelm a place with a contagious disease?).  

  • Child Care Tier
    • Child Care - 391 clusters causing 446 cases 
  • K-12 Schools Tier
    • K-12 Schools - 109 clusters causing 160 cases 
      • High Tier
        • Hospitals - 33 clusters causing 104 cases
      • MediumTier
          • Organized Athletics & Camps - 20 clusters causing 45 cases 
          • Other Workplaces - 15 clusters causing 37 cases 
          • Colleges & Universities - 11 clusters causing 32 cases
          • Other Healthcare - 17 cluster causing 27 cases
        • Low Tier
          • Retail & Services - 9 cluster causing 13 cases 
            • Social Gatherings - 19 clusters causing 6 cases 
            • Industrial Settings - 7 clusters causing 2 cases
            • Restaurants & Food Courts - 4 clusters causing 2 cases
            • Other - 2 clusters causing 2 cases
          • No cases but still have clusters that have not yet been closed
            • Places of Worship - 5 clusters
            • Recreational/Cultural - 5 clusters
            • Offices - 2 clusters 
            • Travel & Lodging - 1 cluster
          • No clusters currently open
              • Other Food Establishments
            Stay safe. Stay informed.

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