COVID-19 community levels: 10/27/2022

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 is our sole high level county.

All other synod counties are low level: Apache, Clark, Coconino, Cochise, Gila, Graham, Greenlee, La Paz, Maricopa, Mohave, Navajo, Nye, 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 20

  • The pace of improvement for cases and hospitalizations has slowed in recent weeks, and test positivity rates suggest that the improvement could soon stop altogether.

  • Cases have fallen by 12 percent nationwide in the past two weeks and are still declining in most states. Hospitalizations, however, have been nearly flat during that same period, and in much of the Northeast they are up by 10 percent or more.

  • The number of deaths announced each day has fallen steadily but slowly since September and remains above 350.

  • These trends come as the country faces lackluster uptake of the bivalent vaccine booster. Since its introduction last month, less than 10 percent of eligible Americans have gotten the shot.

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