COVID-19 community levels: 9/1/2022

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, high level counties are Apache, La Paz, and Yuma.

Medium level: Gila, Graham, Pinal, and Santa Cruz.

Low level: Clark, Coconino, Cochise, Greenlee, Navajo, Maricopa, Mohave, Pima, Yavapai, and 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 August 26

  • Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations have both fallen steadily throughout the month of August.

  • The average number of cases announced each day is an undercount since many cases go unreported, but it has shown significant progress in recent weeks. The count of known cases now sits just above 90,000 per day, down from more than 130,000 per day in mid-July.

  • Cases are falling in all but a few states. And some states, primarily in the West, have seen cases decline by 30 percent or more in the past two weeks.

  • Hospitalizations have seen similar improvement. Fewer than 40,000 people are currently in American hospitals with the coronavirus, a decrease of 10 percent since the start of the month.

  • The number of virus deaths announced each day has been fairly flat in recent weeks, at less than 500 per day, far lower than at most points in the pandemic.

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