Covid-19 exposure risk: 2/10/2022

All counties are at extremely high levels of risk for unvaccinated people. Extremely high risk counties for unvaccinated people in our synod include Apache, Clark, Cochise, Coconino, Gila, Graham, Greenlee, La Paz, Maricopa, Mohave, Navajo, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz, Washington, Yavapai, and Yuma counties.

State of the virus

• New coronavirus cases have been falling rapidly for weeks after reaching record highs. Though infection numbers remain elevated, the country is adding fewer than one-third as many cases as it was in mid-January.

• More than 900,000 coronavirus deaths have been reported nationwide. Since late January, the country has been averaging more than 2,500 newly reported deaths each day, the most since last winter.

• Hospitalizations are declining rapidly, largely mirroring the progress in cases. Still, more than 100,000 people with the virus are hospitalized nationwide.

• Cases are declining almost everywhere in the country. Over the last two weeks, reports of new infections are down more than 70 percent in Nebraska, Nevada and Utah.

• West Virginia has the highest recent hospitalization rate of any state. Case numbers there peaked later than in most other Eastern states.

The New York Times published county-specific guidance for common activities to help you lower your personal risk of getting Covid-19 and to help you protect your community. This advice was developed with public health experts at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies.

“Providing transparent, real time information about what people’s risks are is empowering,” said Dr. Tom Frieden, who is a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the president and C.E.O. of Resolve to Save Lives. “You want to know how hard it’s raining Covid.”