COVID-19 community levels: 11/24/2022

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, Gila and Navajo are high level counties.

Medium level counties include Apache, Cochise, Coconino, Greenlee, La Paz, Maricopa, Mohave, Pinal, Yavapai, and Yuma.

All other synod counties are low level: Clark, Graham, Nye, Pima, Santa Cruz, Washington.

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 November 17

  • Reports of new cases have been roughly flat in the past two weeks, though rising test positivity suggests that they may not stay that way.

  • Cases are rising in about half the states and falling in the other half. In most places, these shifts have been minor — though the Southwest, particularly New Mexico, remains an area of concern.

  • Recent hospitalizations have also been flat at the national level.

  • By contrast, daily deaths from the coronavirus are decreasing. Death counts have fallen by 13 percent nationally in the past two weeks, to about 300 per day.

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