COVID-19 community levels: 3/2/2023

Note: our updates can be a week behind due to our news cycle overlapping with Thursday updates. View the latest CDC and NYTimes updates here.

COVID-19 Community Levels is a tool to help communities decide what prevention steps to take based on the latest data.

Other than Maricopa County, which is at a medium level, all of our synod’s counties are at at low levels: Apache, Clark, Cochise, Coconino, Gila, Graham, Greenlee, La Paz, Mohave, Navajo, Nye, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz, Washington, Yavapai, 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.

Update for February 24

  • Cases, hospitalizations and test positivity rates are flat nationally, but the national figures mask regional differences.

  • Conditions are improving in much of the Northeast, particularly in Connecticut and New Jersey, where hospitalizations and cases have each fallen by 15 percent or more in the past two weeks.

  • However, some states further west, including Nebraska and Utah, have seen cases and hospitalizations rise notably since mid-month.

  • Reported death figures have been artificially low in recent weeks due to delays in processing data from a C.D.C. source.

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