Agreed. What I find strange is the "outbreaks" count in the weekly report. I do feel like the health department could give us a much more detailed view of what is happening in San Diego. It might even help people understand what to avoid, if they understand the nature of the outbreak.
What does this "outbreaks" number mean, exactly? Any epidemiologists here? How many of the cases are due to just these outbreaks, and how much is background community transmission? If the vast majority of cases are isolated to outbreaks, we might not be THAT far from being able to execute on case-based suppression techniques with TTI/Q.
That's the other thing about these state numbers that can be misleading. It's a lot different to have 1000 community transmission cases than it is to have 1000 cases all focused in one facility. You're a lot closer to containment when you have a single outbreak of 1000 cases than you are with 1000 diffuse cases of unknown origin.
I've not seen this really broken out (in detail) anywhere in any state's data presentation.
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