Health
A rural wedding led to dozens of coronavirus cases. Officials see it as a cautionary tale. – The Washington Post
“All the things that make rural America more vulnerable to any kind of disturbance of the equilibrium are magnified tenfold when you’re thinking about covid-19,” said Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
They clustered together in the restaurant of the Big Moose Inn and spilled into the small lobby, their numbers exceeding the states 50-person cap for indoor events during the coronavirus pandemic, state health officials would later declare. They werent keeping much distance from each other, other hotel guests noticed, or wearing masks.
It wasnt until the next day that one of them reported having symptoms of the coronavirus. Soon others did, too. By the end of August, officials with the Maine Ce…
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