Pittsburgh's measures to fight the coronavirus seemed to work in the spring, but the city saw a spike after some reopenings were allowed in June. The culprit? Primarily, officials say, people visiting bars and restaurants or working in them.
in early June, ahead of many parts of Pennsylvania, as part of the so-called “green” phase in Gov. Tom Wolf’s three-step stoplight-colored reopening plan.Santa promptly went to a nearby Italian restaurant for a meal in its outdoor courtyard with a couple relatives.
Barely three weeks later, officials in Allegheny County — home to Pittsburgh and 1.2 million residents —The culprit? Primarily, people in their 20s, 30s and 40s who told contact tracers that they had been visiting bars and restaurants or working in them, county officials said.bars and restaurants, or curtailing dine-in service, as Allegheny County battled to keep its outbreak from becoming a full-blown surge like those across southern and western states.
“The real question is, are we going to overwhelm the hospital capacity in our region, are we going to have the number of ICU beds and ventilators?” Burke said. It was jarring, she said, “because people who had worked that day, we weren’t told who it was, so we didn’t know how close contact we had had, how much it could have spread through the building when we were there. There was a lot unknown at that moment.”It was difficult policing customers, too. Some would wear a mask in, sit down, take it off and then get up to socialize with people at other tables.
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