COVID-19 community levels: 11/3/2022

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, Navajo joins Apache as our medium level county.

All other synod counties are low level: Apache, Clark, Coconino, Cochise, Gila, Graham, Greenlee, La Paz, Maricopa, Mohave, 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 28

  • Hospitalizations and known cases have both been fairly flat nationally in recent weeks, though climbing test positivity suggests that increases could come soon.

  • For both case counts and hospitalizations, modest increases in some states over the past two weeks have been offset by modest decreases in others. While few states have seen extreme fluctuations in either direction, these small differences have been enough to keep numbers static at the national level.

  • Conditions are stable in most states, but there are some concerning trends in the Southwest. In Arizona and New Mexico, both cases and hospitalizations have risen by 30 percent or more since mid-month.

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

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