COVID-19 community levels: 10/20/2022

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 October 14

  • New reported cases have fallen by about 20 percent nationally in the past two weeks, to an average of fewer than 40,000 cases per day.

  • Cases are falling in nearly every state, with the Midwest and South seeing some of the largest declines. Hospitalizations are also decreasing in most states, though they have ticked up in recent weeks in much of the Northeast.

  • The number of deaths announced each day remains persistently flat at just under 400.

  • Test positivity has increased in recent days and remains relatively high, after falling consistently since July. If that trend continues, it could be an early sign of a growing outbreak in the U.S., similar to the ones seen this month in Canada and western Europe.

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