, or at home with their own quarantined child. Ultimately, the outbreak caused a two-week school closure impacting 650 children.facility, where one of the bar attendees who became infected with COVID-19 worked as a certified nursing assistant. They were asymptomatic but tested positive during routine testing at the care facility four days after attending the event.
Looking at the rise in infections across the community as a whole following the event suggests as much. Prior to the bar opening event, the state health department reported a seven-day average daily COVID-19 incidence rate of 41 to 42 cases per 100,000 people in this particular county. Two weeks after the event, that seven-day average daily incidence had more than doubled .