COLORADO CORONAVIRUS: COVID-19 charges proceed on a downward spiral in Colorado

DENVER (KDVR) — COVID-19 rates are persevering with on a downward monitor in Colorado. Charges are on the lowest level since Could and no counties within the state are within the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention’s worst degree of transmission.

As of Monday, the state’s seven-day positivity price was 6.64%, which is down from 7.63% one week in the past. The positivity price measures the quantity of COVID constructive exams in comparison with the full quantity of exams taken.

Total, 40 Colorado counties noticed a lower in COVID-19 positivity, 17 counties noticed a rise, six counties administered fewer than 10 exams, and one county stayed the identical.

In keeping with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, incidence charges are down over the past seven days.

Right here’s a take a look at positivity rates for every county over the last seven days:

• Adams: 8.5% (down)
• Alamosa: 2.3% (down)
• Arapahoe: 7.3% (down)
• Archuleta: 7.5% (down)
• Baca: 4.5% (up)
• Bent: 1.8% (up)
• Boulder: 6.5% (down)
• Broomfield: 5% (down)
• Chaffee: 9.3% (up)
• Cheyenne: 0.0% (similar)
• Clear Creek: 8.8% (down)
• Conejos: 2% (down)
• Costilla: 2.9% (down)
• Crowley: 4.4% (up)
• Custer: 3.7% (down)
• Delta: 2.9% (down)
• Denver: 6.7% (down)
• Dolores: Fewer than 10 exams over final week
• Douglas: 7.8% (down)
• Eagle: 13.9% (down)
• El Paso: 8.3% (down)
• Elbert: 4.7% (down)
• Fremont: 2.8% (down)
• Garfield: 5.2% (down)
• Gilpin: 19% (up)
• Grand: 8.7% (down)
• Gunnison: 3.6% (down)
• Hinsdale: Fewer than 10 exams over final week
• Huerfano: 0.6% (down)
• Jackson: Fewer than 10 exams over final week
• Jefferson: 5.2% (down)
• Kiowa: Fewer than 10 exams over final week
• Equipment Carson: 2.8% (down)
• La Plata: 10.3% (down)
• Lake: 29.4% (up)
• Larimer: 8.1% (down)
• Las Animas: 0.3% (down)
• Lincoln: 3.9% (up)
• Logan: 4.2% (up)
• Mesa: 5.2% (down)
• Mineral: Fewer than 10 exams over final week
• Moffat: 5.9% (down)
• Montezuma: 6.5% (down)
• Montrose: 1.4% (down)
• Morgan: 2.6% (down)
• Otero: 1.7% (up)
• Ouray: 7.7% (up)
• Park: 18% (up)
• Phillips: 38.5% (up)
• Pitkin: 18.1% (up)
• Prowers: 2.7% (down)
• Pueblo: 5.1% (down)
• Rio Blanco: 3.9% (up)
• Rio Grande: 2.7% (up)
• Routt: 5.9% (down)
• Saguache: 17.2% (up)
• San Juan: Fewer than 10 exams over final week
• San Miguel: 12.1% (down)
• Sedgwick: 2.5% (down)
• Summit: 22.2% (down)
• Teller: 7% (up)
• Washington: 1.2% (down)
• Weld: 7.9% (down)
• Yuma: 4% (down)

What’s the positivity %?

In keeping with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the % constructive is strictly what it feels like: the proportion of all coronavirus exams carried out which can be truly constructive, or: (constructive exams)/(whole exams) x 100%. The % constructive (generally referred to as the “% constructive price” or “positivity price”) helps public well being officers reply questions such as:

• What’s the present degree of SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) transmission locally?
• Are we doing sufficient testing for the quantity of people who find themselves getting contaminated?

The % constructive can be excessive if the variety of constructive exams is simply too excessive, or if the variety of whole exams is simply too low. The next % constructive suggests greater transmission and that there are seemingly extra individuals with coronavirus locally who haven’t been examined but, Johns Hopkins shared.