Some public health officials have expressed concern that people are assuming they can get back to social gatherings, instead of social distancing.
Some public health officials have expressed concern that as the economy opens up, people are assuming they can get back to other routines, such as social gatherings.“We have found as businesses begin to open up, for some people, there was a sense that things are OK now, and they began having gatherings in the home and birthday parties,” Sacramento County health officer Dr. Olivia Kasirye“That is most of the exposure. They are multi-generational. They have people with higher risk,” she added.
Of the eight outbreaks reported in the last seven days, the biggest had four or five cases, Dr. Wilma Wooten, the county’s public health officer, said last week. She said no deaths had been associated with any of the outbreaks.Two confirmed Wednesday and announced Thursday were at a campground and a “social club,” according to county officials.Officials said they were asking residents to voluntarily comply with the public health orders.
The county refused to release the names of facilities associated with outbreaks. They said outbreaks at businesses had involved only employees, and identifying the places would create the risk of businesses not reporting or cooperating with contact-tracing efforts.Fletcher acknowledged that gatherings in people’s homes that involve people from different households would present a challenge for law enforcement agencies. Such gatherings are illegal under the county’s public health order.
Wooten said such private gatherings in homes, where people are less inclined to wear masks, would likely be banned under the public health order until herd immunity could be achieved, and that was unlikely to happen this year.
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