Three days later, she was sick with Covid-19, one of about 2,000 people who fell ill as a result of the two-day event.
The concert was one of a series of business events, company holiday parties and family gatherings that fuelled a 4,600 per cent increase in cases on the island, a surgethe Puerto Rican holiday season stretches to Three Kings Day on Thursday . Dr Rafael Irizarry, a Harvard University statistician who keeps a dashboard of Puerto Rico Covid-19 data, posted the daunting facts on Twitter: One-third of all coronavirus cases the island has recorded since the start of the pandemic occurred in the past month. The number of cases per 100,000 residents jumped to 225, from three, in three weeks.
"I first noticed something going on on Dec 13, and I alerted the Department of Health," he said."By the 14th and 15th, it was obvious. I called the guy who runs the database and said, 'Is there some kind of glitch in the database?'" "The problem is, let's suppose Omicron is half as bad," Dr Irizarry said."If you have eight times more cases, the math doesn't work out in your favour."
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