COVID-19 community levels: 9/22/2022

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, medium level counties are only Apache.

Low level: Clark, Coconino, Cochise, Gila, Graham, Greenlee, La Paz, Maricopa, Mohave, Navajo, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz, Yavapai, Washington, 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 September 15

  • Fewer than 70,000 coronavirus cases are currently announced each day in the United States, the lowest level seen since early May.

  • Cases are flat or falling in nearly every state, and in many places, the declines are significant. More than a dozen states and territories have seen cases decrease by 40 percent or more since the start of the month.

  • Hospitalizations have also seen sustained improvement. Fewer than 35,000 people are currently in American hospitals with the coronavirus each day, a decrease of 11 percent over the past two weeks.

  • Data on new virus deaths is volatile at the moment because of the lingering effects of Labor Day weekend, when many states did not report. Still, deaths today are far lower than they were a year ago, when the Delta variant was causing nearly 2,000 deaths per day.

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