The first signs of a post-Thanksgiving surge of COVID-19 cases started to appear six days after the holiday, Summit County Health Director Rich Bullough said, a grim development that officials hope is not indicative of a winterlong trend.
“We are where we expected to be,” Bullough said in an interview Tuesday morning. “Went into Thanksgiving with numbers higher than we wanted to be, and we’re seeing the surge we expected.”
He told the Board of Health on Monday that the case rate is rising quickly among older populations. He said that it appeared that intergenerational gatherings contributed to that trend, though his teams hadn’t had time to analyze the data.