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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 © Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff 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

New COVID-19 Rules Imposed on Cape Cod Nursing Homes Amid Outbreak

/ The statewide positivity rate for COVID-19 shows Provincetown and Chilmark with higher rates. A nursing home in West Yarmouth also recently identified 24 cases among residents and nine among staff. A spike in COVID-19 cases on Cape Cod has prompted the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to issue new protocols for long-term care facilities in Barnstable County. The department said in a July 19 memorandum to Cape facilities that it was implementing new rules in response to a “marked increase” in cases in the region. The memo called for nursing homes and other facilities to test employees who are not fully vaccinated before every shift. That’s more strict than the guidelines in place statewide since May, which call for weekly testing.

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