For example:
Local bar opening in rural Illinois was tied to at least 46 new Covid cases, CDC says
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A local bar opening in a rural Illinois county in early February was tied to at least 46 new coronavirus cases and a school closure that affected 650 children, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study.
The bar opening is credited with a doubling of the county’s per capita case count. Before the event, the county had an average of up to 42 cases per 100,000 people over seven days. That
daily case average more than doubled 14 days after the opening, the CDC said.
The case, highlighted in a research paper released Monday, provides more evidence of how dining at restaurants, weddings and nightclubs have the potential to become super-spreading events for Covid-19.
After routine case investigation, local health officials identified a cluster of cases linked to a handful of people at the indoor bar opening, including one attendee who was diagnosed with asymptomatic Covid-19 the day before and still went. Four people who had symptoms and later tested positive for the virus were also there that night.
“These findings demonstrate that opening up settings such as bars, where mask wearing and physical distancing are challenging, can increase the risk for community transmission,” the CDC said.
