Cape Cod is weathering a surge in COVID cases at the height of tourism season — including many among vaccinated people

Cape Cod is weathering a surge in COVID cases at the height of tourism season — including many among vaccinated people
Kay Lazar
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Travis Dagenais contracted COVID-19 in Provincetown over July Fourth holiday despite being vaccinated. “I interpreted the town of Provincetown allowing these nightclubs and spaces to operate as a signal of safety,” he said.
State officials dispatched teams of health workers to Cape Cod and issued new safety guidance amid worrisome signs Tuesday that COVID cases are on the rise across the renowned summer playground.
Despite having one of the most vaccinated populations in the state, Cape Cod now has the highest rate of new COVID cases in Massachusetts. Health officials are battling an outbreak in Provincetown that has infected at least 132 people since July 1 — most of them vaccinated — as well as a cluster in a Yarmouth nursing home, where as many as 33 residents and staff are infected, many of them already vaccinated, too.

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