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🗓️ 2 August 2021
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0:00.0 | The New York Times |
0:06.0 | Province Town is this little community up on the tip of Cape Cod. |
0:12.0 | The New York Times called it a vacation mecca for the LGBTQ community. |
0:17.0 | And so 4th of July weekend, everybody's excited. |
0:20.0 | About 60,000 people came into town, |
0:24.0 | ready to party, the bars were open, the clubs were open. |
0:28.0 | And this is, you know, a community, one of the local leaders said |
0:32.0 | they thought about 90% of people there were vaccinated against COVID-19. |
0:37.0 | The guidance from the CDC at that time said, you know, |
0:40.0 | if you've been vaccinated, you can go out without a mask. |
0:43.0 | You can go to a bar, you can go to a club and dance with your friends. |
0:49.0 | On the 4th in early July, the area around Province Town was reporting zero COVID cases. |
0:55.0 | So this really seemed like a post-COVID world. |
0:59.0 | But as it turned out, COVID-19 and the Delta variant specifically was still lurking. |
1:07.0 | A week, two weeks after the 4th of July, after everybody went home, |
1:14.0 | some cases started to pop up around Province Town. |
1:17.0 | The local authorities there started doing some contact tracing |
1:21.0 | that this team of nurses who were calling people up asking, all right, |
1:24.0 | so what were you doing a week or two ago? |
1:27.0 | And as it turned out, there were a lot of people who were infected with the coronavirus, |
1:30.0 | who had been partying in Province Town on 4th of July weekend. |
1:34.0 | So at this point, I think, we're up to nearly 1,000 cases that have been linked back to the 4th of July festivities at Province Town. |
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