Cuyahoga, nearly all Ohio counties green for low COVID-19 spread: CDC map

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cuyahoga County, together with 87 of Ohio’s 88 counties, have been designated inexperienced for low COVID-19 unfold on the newest U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention map.

It’s the seventh week in a row that Cuyahoga County has saved its inexperienced designation, and the sixth week in a row that each one Northeast Ohio counties have been inexperienced.

All 88 Ohio counties have been labeled inexperienced for 2 weeks in April, however this week Morgan County in southeast Ohio turned yellow, for reasonable COVID-19 unfold.

Individuals who stay in yellow-designated counties, and are in danger for extreme COVID-19, ought to ask their healthcare supplier whether or not they need to put on masks or take different precautions, in response to the CDC.

The newest map was up to date late Thursday.

Within the wake of waning COVID-19 circumstances and the tip of the nation’s pandemic public well being emergency, the CDC is anticipated to cease reporting its color-coded COVID-19 neighborhood ranges quickly, press reviews stated. The CDC started its color-coded county map system displaying COVID-19 unfold county-by-county in March 2022. The general public well being emergency expires Thursday.

“With the tip of the general public well being emergency, CDC will now not get the identical information. We’re working to replace the measure used to convey the chance of COVID-19 in communities primarily based on information that will probably be obtainable,” a CDC spokesperson stated.

The usage of at-home testing additionally makes it onerous to collect correct information about COVID-19 infections.

The CDC will start monitoring COVID-19 unfold by hospitalizations in some areas, because it does with flu, information reviews stated. The company didn’t say precisely when it can cease producing the county-by-county COVID-19 unfold maps.

In late August, a majority of Ohio’s counties have been purple, for prime COVID-19 unfold.

Counties are labeled as low (inexperienced), medium (yellow) or excessive (purple) below the CDC’s system for estimating the chance of COVID-19 an infection.

Individuals in purple counties with excessive transmission are suggested by the CDC to put on masks indoors. Counties are thought-about to have excessive transmission ranges when neighborhood coronavirus circulation may overwhelm native hospitals.

Could 4 county designations

Ashtabula County: Inexperienced (low transmission)

Cuyahoga County: Inexperienced (low transmission)

Geauga County: Inexperienced (low transmission)

Lake County: Inexperienced (low transmission)

Lorain County: Inexperienced (low transmission)

Medina County: Inexperienced (low transmission)

Portage County: Inexperienced (low transmission)

Summit County: Inexperienced (low transmission)

April 28 Northern Ohio county designations

Ashtabula County: Inexperienced (low transmission)

Cuyahoga County: Inexperienced (low transmission)

Geauga County: Inexperienced (low transmission)

Lake County: Inexperienced (low transmission)

Lorain County: Inexperienced (low transmission)

Medina County: Inexperienced (low transmission)

Portage County: Inexperienced (low transmission)

Summit County: Inexperienced (low transmission)

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