THREAD: Today a new order goes into effect further restricting, among other things, mass gatherings and restaurant and bar activity. We base these restrictions on public health data and evidence. Our data are not showing a large impact from protests at this time.

What we are learning, through our contact tracers reaching those who have tested positive for COVID-19, is that people who are testing positive are mostly hanging out at bars, and getting together with family and friends.
If you’re worried about this uptick in cases of COVID-19,

we ask that you worry less about people protesting and more about how you, your family, and your friends can change their social behavior to slow the spread of the virus. We also ask that you consider your assumptions.

What racial biases do you have that have led you to believe that protesting is a driver of this pandemic instead of the actions that actually are driving it?

Read our new blog post for more details on what the data driving restrictions look like today, and how two public health crises--racism and the pandemic--are intersecting to disproportionately affect Black and Latinx members of our community: https://bit.ly/3isS6ge ">https://bit.ly/3isS6ge&q...