County s 30% restaurant capacity mandate absent key local data, damages industry Mackensy Lunsford, Asheville Citizen Times
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Buncombe County cut restaurant capacity to 30%, stricter than the state-mandated 50%, without community-based data proving local restaurants role in the spread of COVID, the county told the Citizen Times. In terms of specific local numbers, the county health staff have never been able to provide breakouts by percentage of how COVID is understood to be spread through various sectors so to speak, Buncombe County Board of Commissioners chairman Brownie Newman told the Citizen Times on Jan. 21. For example, what percentage of COVID transmission has been spread during church services, school attendance, indoor dining, other work spaces, other social gatherings, etc.