Colorado Springs
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – The El Paso County Department of Public Health issued a severe warning nearly 14 days ago: if there is no decrease in the COVID-19 rate, the county may have to reassess variations and reduce business operations. .
“It’s a pretty upward trend for the month of July and actually started in June,” said Dr. Robin Johnson, El Paso County Medical Director of Public Health.
The county went from a rate that was among the lowest in the state to the second highest rate in the state behind Denver, but the number of daily coronavirus cases has decreased since Dr. Leon Kelly’s warning.
“We have followed an upward trend and in the last two days we have flattened out. A couple of days have passed, so we are hopeful, but it is not necessarily a sufficient period of time to say that this trend is something we can hang on to. Hat “Johnson said.
Data reported by the El Paso County Department of Public Health showed 124 cases reported on July 9. Since then, the county has not reported a single day with more than 100 cases. The general trend since the end of June has increased with occasional falls.
“There may be a point where some of the numbers included in that variation go back to try again to help us flatten that curve and get ahead of the differential,” he said.
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