COVID-19 community levels: 6/10/2022
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, Apache, Clark, and Navajo are at high levels.
Medium levels counties are now: Cochise, Coconino, Gila, Greenlee, Maricopa, Mohave, Pima, and Washington.
Low level counties remain in Graham, La Paz, Pinal, Santa Cruz, Yavapai,and Yuma.
At all levels including the low level, prevention steps include:
Stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines
Get tested if you have symptoms
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 June 9
After weeks of growth, reports of new cases in the United States have been largely flat in recent days.
Roughly 110,000 cases are announced each day in the U.S. — a fraction of the true toll, since many infections go uncounted in official reports — but roughly half of all states are in the midst of steady declines. In the past two weeks, nearly every Northeastern state has seen cases fall by 30 percent or more.
As conditions improve in the Northeast and Midwest, though, the South and West have begun to emerge as new hotspots. Cases have more than doubled over the past two weeks in Wyoming and Oklahoma.
Similar regional distinctions are visible in hospitalizations. The number of people hospitalized with the coronavirus is declining in the populous Northeast, but in the rest of the country, hospitalizations are increasing. Overall, this has led to a modest increase in the number of people hospitalized with the virus at the national level — roughly 29,000 on an average day, up 12 percent from two weeks ago.
Fatality data has been volatile in recent weeks because of delays in reporting around Memorial Day. Still, reports of new deaths remain low. Fewer than 350 deaths are being reported each day, down from more than 2,600 a day at the height of the winter Omicron surge.