Explore the Data: Which Businesses or Community Settings Saw the Most COVID-19 Outbreaks?

Long-term care, K-12 schools and colleges logged lots of COVID-19 outbreaks in New Hampshire between March 2020 and September 2021 — but so did retail or service establishments, restaurants or taverns, and manufacturing or warehouse settings, according to the state's infectious disease surveillance data. In fact, all of the above reported more COVID-19 outbreaks and outbreak-related cases in the first 18 months of the pandemic than did local hospitals.

Please note: The columns below use different scales to more clearly show differences in the data.

Data notes: The numbers above come directly from a data request prepared by state health officials at the request of NHPR. "Community Setting - Other" includes locations where people gather for private or semi-private activities, or settings where spread is largely in non-workers and not better classified elsewhere. "Other residential setting (non-school)" includes living facilities not better classified in other categories. "Public Service/government" includes government work settings that are not classified in other more specific functional categories. These include office/administrative settings, police, and fire. "Therapeutic Services" includes community services type settings that may offer a range of services, including day and residential programs, where transmission location is not definitively known to be limited to residential setting alone. "Workplace - Other" includes settings not better classified elsewhere where the only or primary spread was in workers.