Our COVID-19 status is currently a 2 (out of 4) or “Moderate Risk,” according to the new metrics.
Yesterday, the county’s Joint Information Center added a new feature to its COVID-19 dashboard: an “alert assessment tool” that is intended to provide the public with an immediate measure of the state of the pandemic in Humboldt County.
The evaluation looks at three variables: the local spread of the virus, the available capacity of our healthcare infrastructure, and the effectiveness of control measures, and rates them on a scale of 1 (good) to 4 (poor), according to certain guidelines Default, which can be found at this link. The three categories are summarized in a single “general alert level”.
Overall, the county currently places us at Level Two, or “moderate risk.” The recipe for moderate risk times, according to the tool, is “increase efforts to limit personal exposure.” If the county rises to higher levels of alert, “high risk” or “very high risk,” then the tool suggests further enforcement.
Again: You can find the tool on the county dashboard.
Next: Dr. Josh Ennis, Humboldt Assistant Director of Health, talks about designing the Alert Assessment Tool, how it informs local decision-making, and what the public can do to help keep the county in the green zone the more possible. .
