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, La Paz, and Navajo are at high levels.

Medium levels counties are now: Cochise, Coconino, Greenlee, Maricopa, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz, Washington and and Yuma.

Low level counties remain in Graham, Gila, Mohave, and Yavapai.

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 22

• With daily cases largely flat throughout the month of June, the national outlook remains stable in the United States, though there are fluctuations attributable to delays in Covid reporting over summer holidays.

• Many states did not report Covid data over the Juneteenth holiday weekend. Still, the number of new known cases announced each day in the U.S. remains close to 100,000.

• The country’s cases have remained relatively steady even as some regions have seen increasing caseloads and others have seen conditions improve. In the Northeast and Midwest, for instance, known cases have been declining for weeks. States like Vermont and Massachusetts are now seeing daily case counts on par with those seen in early March, before a spring surge began.

• In the South and West, however, cases are increasing. Cases in Mississippi have more than doubled since the start of the month.

• Hospitalizations are largely unaffected by delays in official reporting over holidays, and they have remained steady in recent weeks. Around 30,000 people are in American hospitals with coronavirus on an average day — a figure that has stayed mostly consistent since the start of the month.

• Daily deaths from Covid also remain level. Roughly 300 deaths are currently announced each day, a fraction of the thousands seen daily during the winter Omicron peak.