County seal and coronaviris graphic shown against LA County’s 7-Day Daily Average Testing Positivity Rate from April 21 through July 12, 2021. (Courtesy LA County Dept. of Public Health) Los Angeles County marked its 12th consecutive day of one thousand or more new COVID-19 i...
Declines in hospitalizations and ICU admissions have leveled off while the test positivity rate is rising. by Aidin Vaziri California’s period of relative calm in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic may be drawing to a close. Whether it’s the renowned UCSF physician, Dr. Bob Wachter, a c...
When one has COVID-19, rapid tests remain valuable in reducing risk to others, as positivity appears to correlate well with being potentially contagious. The new state guidance states that people can remove their masks before 10-days if two rapid tests are negative, taken at least a day apar...
Keys to Be the Change student leaders participate in prevention activities including Red Ribbon Week, Unity Day, Human Trafficking Awareness campaigns, monthly positivity campaigns, and anti-drug, alcohol and violence campaigns. These same youth leaders read with "littles" at elementary schools on a ...
While the positivity rates meet the yellow tier criteria, the county's adjusted case rate would need to drop below 2 per 100,000 and stay there for at least two weeks for the county to move to the yellow tier and enjoy looser COVID-19 restrictions. Moving to the yellow tier would...
Continued decreases in case and positivity rates have Santa Cruz County on track to enter a less restrictive tier of the state’s Covid-19 reopening plan on March 31, County Health OfficerDr. Gail Newel said at Thursday’s weekly virtual press conference. ...
As of July 15th, the seven-day average COVID-19 case rate in Orange County increased to 33.1 per 100,000 people (>20.0 CDC threshold) and the average number of daily COVID-19 cases is 1,068. The positivity rate increased to 17.4 percent, with hospitalizations at 277, and ICU ad...
Since the start of 2021, when all FCPS students returned to virtual learning after coronavirus infection rates surged regionally and nationally, the school division worked on a plan to get all students back in the classroom. The current downward trend in Covid cases and percent positivity in the...
"Michiganders have followed the science and worked hard to slow the spread of COVID-19, resulting in dramatic improvements in our case numbers, deaths, hospitalizations and positivity rates. Now we need to redouble our efforts by continuing to wear masks properly, socially distance, avoid crowds,...
“We’re seeing a rate of 18.97 percent,” Alston said, adding that the test positivity rate had been much higher on some days recently and was expected by medical professionals to be over 30 percent soon. The Guilford County Board of Health – which is identical to the Board of Commission...