Rule-breaking partiers are causing large rise in virus cases

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EVERETT — COVID-19 case rates continue to steadily climb after reaching a low point in late spring, driven in part by summer gatherings that have become hotbeds for infection transmission, Snohomish County’s top public health official said on Tuesday.

The county is now seeing about 80 cases per 100,000 people every two weeks — roughly four times the rolling average six weeks ago, when that number was at its lowest since the beginning of the pandemic, said Dr. Chris Spitters, the Snohomish Health District’s health officer.

Because the county remains in the second phase of Gov. Jay Inslee’s reopening plan for the state, people are limited to gathering with no more than five others outside of their household. That rule is being broken, though, fueling outbreaks.

Between June 20 and July 11, at least 82 cases were linked to at least three dozen social gatherings that were larger than allowed. The events, some of which drew as many as 40 people, were each connected to an average of five cases, Spitters said.

Public health workers have traced confirmed cases back to 30 separate gatherings on July 4.

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https://www.heraldnet.com/news/cases-still-steadily-rising-after-late-springtime-low-point/

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1. Do these people not care? I wonder how many of these people have elderly and other at risk

persons in their families? I like reading about the father in one case where the kid was out and about, and not taking precautions, refused to let the kid back into their home, told the kid to self isolate elsewhere (not in the home)...more families need to do this, e.g., start looking after their own, since the feds have left the building and are not doing a damn thing, and states (the republicans) aren't doing anything except playing catch up now being that their CV numbers are way up. A case of doing too little, way too late.

People will remember this ignorant buffoons when election time comes around again...I suspect that a lot of these republican thugs will be thrown out of office being that they were unconcerned about voter safety, family safety in these scary times.