Fewer counties in Washington state are classified with “high” COVID-19 network grades than last week, but Benton and Franklin counties are on the list.
This means the masks are in public places in the Tri-Cities, under the direction of the CDC.
And thousands will have to wear face masks inside the works for a week straight.
The Tri-Cities region was also classified as “high” through the CDC last week.
Benton and Franklin counties are starting to see a more acute buildup in the shown cases of COVID-19 and the amount of virus detected in the city’s untreated wastewater, Dr. Brown said. Amy Person, fitness officer for both counties, at a news conference Friday.
Over the next week, at the Hanford Nuclear Reserve, which employs about 11,000 people, the mask will be mandatory indoors, regardless of vaccination status, but with exceptions, such as when a person is in a workplace with the door closed.
Visits to the Hanford B reactor, which is part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, were canceled until the CDC score dropped.
At NLP, which employs 5350 people, most of them on its Richland campus, face coverings are indoors, with a few exceptions, when the CDC says the case rate is “high. “
Employees who have not been vaccinated will need to provide a negative control result and physical distancing.
Benton and Franklin are 12 Washington counties that the CDC considers to have “high” network levels, up from 14 last week.
Walla Walla County has moved from the list of counties with “high” to the list of 20 counties with “medium” matrix.
Only seven counties, Columbia and Whitman, where Washington state’s Pullman University is located, have “low” levels.
CDC evaluates counties on the number of new COVID-19 cases, hospital beds used by COVID patients, and hospital admissions for others with the disease.
Most likely, the coronavirus in Tri-Cities will be fueled by the same BA. 5 subvariant of the omicron variant, which has led to a backlog of cases in Washington and the United States, he said.
The BA. 5 subvariant is contagious.
“While our hospitals have noticed a backlog of COVID-19 cases, this reflects the number of cases or disease activity in the community,” Dr. Person said.
Hospitals in Benton and Franklin counties are feeling the strain of several patients overall, he said.
Overall, the BA. 5 variant has been linked to a buildup of infections, hospitalizations or deaths, he said.
There have been no new deaths due to COVID-19 headaches announced last week through the Benton Franklin Health District.
But 8 recent deaths due to COVID-19 headaches have been announced so far this month. Seven to nine deaths have been reported in the last 3 months.
Deaths this summer remain well below the number of deaths per month announced earlier this year: 27 in March, 43 in February and 21 in January.
The total number of covid-19 headache deaths in the Tri-Cities region since the beginning of the pandemic is 679. They come with 466 Citizens of Benton County and 213 citizens of Franklin County.
“Vaccination continues to be our most productive way to prevent serious illness, hospitalization or death,” Dr. Person said. “And that includes getting all the reinforcements you’re entitled to. “
Anyone over the age of five can get a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine if enough time has passed since their first booster.
For the Pfizer vaccine, which can be given to other people five years of age and older, it is at least five months after the current injection and for Moderna, which is given to other people 18 years of age and older, it is at least six months after their injection time.
Boosters for ages 18 and older who receive a Johnson vaccine
Second reminders are allowed for anyone over the age of 50; other persons over the age of 12 or older who are at least immunocompromised; and other people over the age of 18 who have won the Johnson vaccine
According to information from the Washington State Department of Health, 47. 3 percent of citizens in Benton and Franklin counties eligible for a first booster shot won one. This compares to 57. 6% statewide.
Now, the positive control effects on COVID-19 self-service control at Columbia Basin College, near Argent Road in Pasco, have increased to 40 percent, said Heather Hill, infectious disease manager for the Tri-Cities-based fitness district. this week on the Podcast Kadlec on Call.
That’s a 30% increase on the CBC site about a month ago and a 26% increase on the walk-in verification site that was open in the past in Richland.
The number of coronavirus genetic curtains in untreated wastewater collected in Kennewick, Pasco, Richland and West Richland is now greater than the winter peak of the pandemic fed through the original omicron variant.
“Wastewater tells us there are a lot of infections in our community,” Hill said.
The most recent rate of new instances for Benton and Franklin counties combined is 181 new instances, consistent with another 100,000 people over seven days. That’s up from 90 at the beginning of the month.
The case rate is known to be underestimated, as many other people now have home control kits for COVID-19, and the effects are not shared with public health officials.
Hospitals in the Tri-Cities area on Wednesday saw a slight low in the number of other people receiving treatment there, particularly for a severe case of COVID-19, Hill said.
But the number of COVID-19 patients, who can be admitted for other reasons, has noticed a slight increase in Richland, Kennewick, Pasco and Prosser hospitals combined, he said.
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