The Provincetown outbreak is seen as a critical moment in the pandemic. It showed that vaccines would not end COVID, but it also held lessons on how to contain the spread.
A line of tourists enters the Lobster Pot in Provincetown just as the restaurant opens it’s doors for the day. Big crowds are expected in town for the July 4th weekend.
Public health experts and Provincetown residents say they are keeping those lessons in mind as they prepare for another Independence Day weekend.Provincetown is a hub for the LGBTQ community, and the July 4th holiday often draws big crowds — sometimes as many as 100,000 people — to a relatively small seaside town. Last year it was rainy, so people gathered indoors, filling up the area's clubs and restaurants.
“This was absolutely a key moment and a bit of a turning point, certainly in our thinking,” said Bronwyn MacInnis, the director of genomic surveillance at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. “It just showed us that there was more to come, and the virus had more tricks up its sleeve.” This realization prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to reverse earlier guidance and recommend masking for vaccinated people indoors in certain settings.The delta variant did sweep through Provincetown and later, the country, but not because of this outbreak.
People got tested. They isolated or quarantined. And they alerted friends and contacts who might have been exposed. “That kind of lived history really prompts us to be a community that seeks health care, and that health seeking behavior actually allows us to get ahead of infectious diseases that maybe you wouldn't be able to pick up in the general population as quickly,” he said.
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