After warning of restrictions, is El Paso County flattening COVID-19 curve? – KRDO
Colorado Springs
Data reported by El Paso County Public Health showed 124 reported cases on July 9. Because then, the county has not reported a single day with more than 100 cases. The total trend since late June has been increasing with periodic dips.
” We have actually continued to pattern up and in the last couple days we have flattened. It is has been a couple of days so we are confident, however its not always a long enough time period to say this trend is something we can hang our hat on,” Johnson stated.
” Its a pretty upward pattern for the month of July and it in fact began in June,” said Dr. Robin Johnson, El Paso County Public Health Medical Director.
The county went from a rate that was among the most affordable in the state to the second-highest rate in the state behind Denver, but the variety of day-to-day coronavirus cases has actually been dropping considering that Dr. Leon Kellys caution.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)– A stark warning was released by the El Paso County Public Health Department almost 14 days ago: if there isnt a sluggish in the rate of COVID-19, the county might need to re-evaluate differences and scale back organisation operations.
” There may be a point where stepping back a few of the numbers included because difference to ry once again to help us sort of flatten that curve and get ahead of the spread,” she said.
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