The CDC on Thursday reported 13 North Carolina counties have high community COVID-19 levels, places where masking in indoor public places and on public transportation is recommended. The CDC bases its COVID-19 community level determinations on case rates, COVID hospital admissions and the percentage of hospital beds used by COVID patients over seven days. Ross says she wears a mask in the grocery store and in public places indoors when she can’t social distance. The omicron surge of last winter sent record numbers of COVID-19 patients to hospitals. “We have an imperfect vision of the future, but we do have a pretty good vision of the next month or two.”The DHHS COVID-19 dashboard, which reports CDC community risks levels on Wednesdays each week, showed only Durham County at a high community risk level.

Source: Washington Post June 04, 2022 03:45 UTC