DENVER (KDVR) — COVID-19 rates continue to steadily increase in Colorado during the last month. Final week, Colorado’s COVID-19 incident commander, Scott Bookman stated the coronavirus is right here to remain.
“This virus is right here to remain, there isn’t any doubt about that,” Bookman stated. People have realized how you can stay with the influenza virus and we’re going to do the identical with the coronavirus, he stated.
As of Monday, the state’s seven-day positivity charge was 9.25%, which is up from 8.61% one week in the past. Positivity charge measures the quantity of COVID optimistic checks to the overall quantity of checks taken.
Total, 35 counties noticed a rise in COVID-19 positivity, 21 counties noticed a lower, two counties stayed the identical, and 6 counties administered fewer than 10 checks.
In line with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, incidence charges are up during the last week.
Right here’s a take a look at positivity rates for every county over the last seven days:
- Adams: 9.6% (up)
- Alamosa: 3.4% (down)
- Arapahoe: 9.8% (up)
- Archuleta: 13.3% (up)
- Baca: 0.0% (identical)
- Bent: 0.8% (down)
- Boulder: 11.3% (up)
- Broomfield: 11.4% (down)
- Chaffee: 7.8% (down)
- Cheyenne: 0.0% (down)
- Clear Creek: 12.7% (up)
- Conejos: 4.9% (up)
- Costilla: 20% (up)
- Crowley: 1.8% (up)
- Custer: 13.9% (up)
- Delta: 2.9% (down)
- Denver: 8.8% (down)
- Dolores: Fewer than 10 checks over final week
- Douglas: 11.6% (up)
- Eagle: 7.8% (down)
- El Paso: 9.7% (up)
- Elbert: 6.3% (down)
- Fremont: 4% (up)
- Garfield: 7.5% (up)
- Gilpin: 4.3% (down)
- Grand: 0.0% (down)
- Gunnison: 13% (up)
- Hinsdale: Fewer than 10 checks over final week
- Huerfano: 0.9% (down)
- Jackson: Fewer than 10 checks over final week
- Jefferson: 10.4% (down)
- Kiowa: Fewer than 10 checks over final week
- Equipment Carson: 0.0% (down)
- La Plata: 7.9% (up)
- Lake: 8% (down)
- Larimer: 10.6% (up)
- Las Animas: 1.8% (down)
- Lincoln: 6.4% (up)
- Logan: 3.1% (up)
- Mesa: 4.7% (up)
- Mineral: Fewer than 10 checks over final week
- Moffat: 12% (up)
- Montezuma: 7.5% (up)
- Montrose: 6.4% (up)
- Morgan: 2.9% (up)
- Otero: 2.1% (up)
- Ouray: 18.5% (up)
- Park: 8.7% (down)
- Phillips: 3.4% (up)
- Pitkin: 4.9% (down)
- Prowers: 0.7% (up)
- Pueblo: 5.3% (up)
- Rio Blanco: 7.7% (up)
- Rio Grande: 4% (up)
- Routt: 11.1% (down)
- Saguache: 8.3% (up)
- San Juan: Fewer than 10 checks over final week
- San Miguel: 13.4% (up)
- Sedgwick: 0.0% (identical)
- Summit: 14.2% (down)
- Teller: 9.6% (up)
- Washington: 1.9% (down)
- Weld: 10.9% (up)
- Yuma: 4.3% (up)
Significant spread of COVID-19 in Boulder County
What’s the positivity p.c?
In line with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the p.c optimistic is precisely what it seems like: the share of all coronavirus checks carried out which can be really optimistic, or: (optimistic checks)/(complete checks) x 100%. The p.c optimistic (typically known as the “p.c optimistic charge” or “positivity charge”) helps public well being officers reply questions such as:
- What’s the present stage of SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) transmission in the neighborhood?
- Are we doing sufficient testing for the quantity of people who find themselves getting contaminated?
The p.c optimistic can be excessive if the variety of optimistic checks is just too excessive, or if the variety of complete checks is just too low. The next p.c optimistic suggests greater transmission and that there are doubtless extra folks with coronavirus in the neighborhood who haven’t been examined but, Johns Hopkins shared.
