COVID-19 community levels: 5/26/2022

COVID-19 Community Levels is a tool to help communities decide what prevention steps to take based on the latest data.

According to the CDC’s COVID-19 Community Levels, Clark County is the first to be at medium level after months of low levels in our synod.

All of our synod’s remaining counties are low level: Apache, Cochise, Coconino, Gila, Graham, Greenlee, La Paz, Maricopa, Mohave, Navajo, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz, Washington, Yavapai, and Yuma.

At all levels including the low level, prevention steps include:

At the medium level, if you are at high risk for severe illness, talk to your healthcare provider about whether you need to wear a mask and take other precautions.

At the high level, wear a mask indoors in public. Additional precautions may be needed for people at high risk for severe illness.

Levels can be low, medium, or high and are determined by looking at hospital beds being used, hospital admissions, and the total number of new COVID-19 cases in an area.

State of the virus

Update for May 24

  • The United States is averaging more than 105,000 new cases each day, the most since February, when the first Omicron wave was subsiding. Cases are rising in most states, and since many cases go uncounted in official reports, the true toll is higher than these figures show.

  • Hospitalizations are also increasing, though they remain well below the peak levels seen during the winter. About 25,000 people with the coronavirus are hospitalized in the United States, compared to nearly 160,000 in late January, when the initial Omicron surge was at its worst.

  • Conditions appear to be stabilizing in some Northeastern states that were among the first to see a spring surge in cases. Though still high, case rates have started to level off or decline in New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island.

  • Infections and hospitalizations are increasing quickly across much of the South, including in Louisiana, Tennessee and West Virginia.

  • The United States recently surpassed one million total coronavirus deaths. New reported deaths remain at some of their lowest levels of the pandemic, with about 300 announced each day.

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