Transmission levels stay stubbornly high, with 87% of the U.S. population living in areas with substantial or higher transmission, slightly lower than last week. Rates are higher generally in the South, parts of the Midwest and the East Coast, with lower levels seen in the West, according to the People's CDC and it's weekly report.
Hendry now at "high" transmission rates along with Glades, Charlotte and Collier. Lee county is at "substantial."
Positivity test rates were 6% in Hendry last week from 190 tests performed. 66 new cases were reported.
What the CDC calls the "Community Transmission" levels are rated "high" or "substantial" for most of Florida counties. 49% of U.S. counties are at "high" levels and 27% are at "substantial" levels. And by population, 87% of the U.S. is at high or substantial levels this week.
High Transmission Level is defined as new cases per 100,000 persons in the past 7 days of 100 or more OR Percentage of positive NAATs tests during the past 7 day at 10% or more.
To see "Community Transmission" levels click The community transmission map
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Editor's note: Click the links above to confirm the statistics, note the CDC website is not easy to search for information so the links will lead you to the information. The CDC pages are sometimes extremely slow loading and complicated, with many links to click to find information.
Where are you getting this information?The CDC literally shows the opposite of what you are publishing.
ReplyDeletehttps://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view?list_select_state=Florida&data-type=CommunityLevels&list_select_county=12051
Click on the links on the story to find the COVID transmission statistics from the CDC by county, and the People's CDC site (which gives the transmission numbers by population.
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