Thread by @sherman_news

KDHE for the first time has identified the locations of COVID-19 clusters, including 26 long-term care facilities, seven K-State Greek houses, nine private businesses and four religious gatherings. #ksleg

Here's a link to the developing story. In addition to naming the active outbreaks, the updated numbers show an 8% increase in COVID-19 deaths from last week #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2020/09/09/kan…

I've updated the story to include the full list of places and cases #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2020/09/09/kan…

Benedictine College in Atchison has 98 active cases, the most among higher ed. At K-State, there are 60 cases spread among Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Xi Delta, Delta Sigma Phi, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and Theta Xi #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2020/09/09/kan…

Kansas Chamber president Alan Cobb questions the benefit of "public shaming of businesses" and raises the prospect of "legal ramifications" #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2020/09/09/kan…

Over the weekend, @cjjanovy and @authormaxmccoy wrote elegantly about the role of workers in meatpacking plants. We now know KDHE is tracking 2,259 active cases from businesses that deal in food #ksleg

Their columns:

kansasreflector.com/2020/09/07/don…

kansasreflector.com/2020/09/06/thi…

Update with comments from briefing with Norman: "We're going to have businesses that continue to have cases pop up, but what we're really interested in is a trend line to see if we can help them to push down the number of cases to keep people safe" #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2020/09/09/kan…

Norman: “If an individual sees locations they regularly visit on the cluster list, they will have a better sense of how they are increasing their own personal risk and perhaps make some individual decisions to reduce the spread of the disease" #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2020/09/09/kan…