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1. Hopefully the statewide mask mandate (eff. 7/25) and closing Minneapolis bar areas (eff 8/1)
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 03:16 AM
Aug 2020

will bend the curve back down. They took effect on 7/25 and 8/1 respectively.

Below are my notes from several articles:

On July 29, Minneapolis Mayor Frey ordered that all bar areas within bars and restaurants in Minneapolis must close beginning August 1 at 5 P.M. Affecting 650 establishments. Dance areas are closed too.

People can still go to bars and restaurants, and order food and drinks, including adult beverages, but they must sit at tables (a maximum of four people at a table unless they are in the same family and household with 6 feet of spacing between tables. )

Governor Walz said, "We’re not looking at a statewide rollback at this point in time.”

Emergency Regulation 2020-17

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/07/29/mayor-jacob-frey-announces-bar-areas-must-close-again-due-to-covid-19-spread/

There's already a bit of a bending of the curve --
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/minnesota-coronavirus-cases.html

Daily new cases, 7 day moving average
7/29: 712 (all-time peak)
8/3: 680
-4.5%
But 5 days is too short to take much hope in this yet

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