COVID-19 community levels: 10/6/2022

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, all synod counties are low level: Apache, 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 30

  • Known daily cases continue to fall at the national level, but a series of regional increases threaten to halt that progress.

  • Most Northeastern states have seen cases increase by 10 percent or more in the past two weeks. In the West, case counts are climbing in Montana, Washington and Oregon.

  • Hospitalizations have begun to increase in some of these Northeastern and Western states as well, but at the national level hospitalization numbers continue to decline.

  • Deaths remain troublingly high, but they have fallen by 11 percent in the past two weeks.

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