Boston’s Club Café is one of the first club’s in town to announce they’ll start requiring patrons to show their COVID-19 vaccination card at the door. This new admission requirement will begin next Monday, Aug. 16, reports CBS Boston.
“It was really about trying to protect the community, our staff, and our business,” the club’s owner, Jim Morgrage, told CBS Boston, which reports:
[Morgrage] saw the spike in Delta variant cases and wanted to protect his customers and staff, many of whom are in the LGBTQ community.
“The LGBT community, there are so many living with HIV already immunocompromised. So we thought of them as well,” said Morgrage.
A local infectious disease doctor called it a reasonable move since the Delta variant is more contagious and can spread even among vaccinated people.
Could masking up at nightclubs, bars and crowded indoor spaces be next?
“We know that certainly with Delta, even vaccinated people can transmit. You don’t have to be infectious to transmit. And now that we’re above 1,000 cases a day again in the state, I think for the next several weeks if people mask up, we hopefully see a downturn in cases,” said Dr. Daniel Kuritzkes, who works in Brigham and Women’s Hospital Infectious Disease Division.
Morgrage hopes that by people showing their vaccination cards, that will be enough protection for now.
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