{"id":66634,"date":"2021-08-09T00:11:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T07:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=66634"},"modified":"2021-08-09T00:11:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T07:11:31","slug":"gay-covid-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/08\/09\/gay-covid-breakthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay Covid Breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all heard about the breakthrough Covid cases from July 4<sup>th<\/sup> in Provincetown.&nbsp; But let\u2019s talk about the hot gay guy who put the pieces together.&nbsp; <strong>Michael Donnelly <\/strong>is a data scientist from NYC.&nbsp; He wasn\u2019t in Ptown over the 4<sup>th<\/sup>, but his husband and friends were.&nbsp; He noted that people in the same cluster were having the same symptoms shortly after returning home.&nbsp; He started charting the data and plotting the cases and saw a correlation.&nbsp; He shared his findings with the <em>CDC<\/em>, making it the most thorough \u2013 and quickly studied \u2013 cluster since the pandemic began.&nbsp; The bad news \u2013 well, aside from Donnelly having a husband \u2013 is that gay men dancing indoors on a cold and soggy July 4<sup>th<\/sup> weekend created a perfect storm.&nbsp; The silver lining is that Provincetown quickly enacted an indoor mask policy.&nbsp; Since then, infection rates have dropped from 15% to about 4%.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all heard about the breakthrough Covid cases from July 4th in Provincetown.&nbsp; But let\u2019s talk about the hot gay guy who put the pieces together.&nbsp; Michael Donnelly is a data scientist from NYC.&nbsp; He wasn\u2019t in Ptown over the 4th, but his husband and friends were.&nbsp; He noted that people in the same cluster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66643,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66634\/revisions\/66643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}