Despite a recent third wave of COVID-19 cases, tourists are gearing up to hit Cape Cod beaches this coming summer.
Officials said hotels are already filling up for summer vacations and local businesses are scrambling to hire staff before then.
With the influx in tourism on the horizon, officials are also working to vaccinate as many residents as possible. This includes nearly all homebound residents being vaccinated through their local boards of health and councils on aging.
Speeding up vaccinations is timely, as contagious variants of the virus are spreading quickly in the county. Cape Cod is a state hot spot for a variant first discovered in Brazil.
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COVID Variants Driving Up Case Counts On Cape Cod
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Variants Contributing to Anxiety on Cape Cod You really should respect the people who ve been working so hard to serve you and help you enjoy this special place and steward this place year round. If you re not doing that, you re really just a jerk at this point, a state senator said By Chris Lisinski •
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The springtime COVID-19 outbreak on Cape Cod remains a deep and urgent worry for officials in the region, particularly given the rising presence of more highly infectious variants across the country.
One day after U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said the B.1.1.7 strain is now the most common lineage in the United States, Cape Cod elected officials and health experts said that variants of the virus have played a role in driving up the area s case counts.