Special Board of Aldermen 12-21-2020 Page 13
We touched upon it with Kurt and everything else and | am sure he can elaborate. And another point is
you know we talk about yes the employees and you are looking at the face that’s probably going to be
someone that would be laid off if this goes through. There’s also other people, it is the trickle-down
effect, | see Dan (inaudible) on here, he’s one of my reps. Since March | do half of the ordering for the
club and | talk to my beer reps, | talk to my liquor reps and the amount of sales that they are down
because people are already like — we can’t go out or they are worried about this or that and the other
thing. If this goes through, that trickle down affects multiple people, multiple businesses, whereas our
produce company, maybe they have to make lay off because their sales are down. Nashua is a big
place which affects multiple people beyond the restaurant industry. And something to the Health
Department, they talk about big box stores, ok? We take multiple precautions wiping down railings, any
surface that can be touched. When | got to Best Buy, when | go to the grocery store, nobody comes
behind anybody wiping down products that they are touching on multiple times. And it’s not just one
person it is little kids that are wiping their nose.
So to go to the effect to say that people can go to any place and not everybody is taking precautions
that the people in the restaurant industry and the bar industry are going above and beyond that are set
forth for us. | am sure Jim from the River, you guys sterilize your chips and you wash your cards. We
take multiple steps to keep people safe. So that’s all l’ve got to say and please vote no on this. So
thank you for your time.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Angela Consentino.
Angela Consentino Good evening, Angela Consentino, 142 Main Street, | am the Epidemiologist for the
City of Nashua, Division of Public Health & Community Services. So | would just like to review the
outbreak, cluster and watch list data that was provided in your packets and clarify some of the
information. So for some background, at the Division of Public Health, we monitor all positive cases that
live in the City of Nashua and conduct disease investigation interviews for about 70% which is where we
get all of this information from. So if you look at the table entitled “Nashua Facilities on Watch” we have
the exposure reports in Nashua from October to mid-December. These are all of the facilities that have
either experienced an outbreak, which is defined as 3 or more cases without any connection to each
other, a cluster which is less than 3 cases that are connected to each other; or are on our Watch List,
which is an infectious period exposure at a facility with potential for spread.
So these are not all of the cases in Nashua, these are just the outbreak or cluster related cases and it is
worthwhile to note that the patron cases at businesses and restaurants, bars and clubs are likely
underreported as a patron of a facility would have to know about their exposure at said facility to be
identified as part of the outbreak or cluster. So we typically see an increase in patron cases when an
outbreak or cluster is made public as people can identify their exposure to that facility. So, since
October there has been a total of 145 exposure reports with 424 total cases associated with these
exposures. 19 of these reports are associated with restaurants, bars, night clubs and social clubs. Of
these 19 exposures on our Watch List, 13 are in restaurants, bars, and clubs that are open late and 6
are in diner or coffee shop type locations. There was a total of 57 cases associated with those
outbreaks; 75% of those cases were in staff and 25% of those cases were in patrons. There are
approximately 297 contacts associated with those cases. That is an average of 6 restaurants, bars or
clubs that were impacted per month, for the past three months and approximately 100 residents that are
quarantined a month due to exposure at a restaurant.
| would like to reiterate that the numbers that we have on patron cases and contracts associated with
restaurants is likely underreported and the true count is likely higher as the patrons have to be able to
identify their exposure in order to report it. And then | also just want to briefly talk about, there’s been a
lot of mention about the New York Times Contact Tracing Article, | just want to clarify that we do track
transmission types of all cases in New Hampshire.
