This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, orange, emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab.
TWIN FALLS — An updated county-by-county COVID-19 risk assessment from the public health district Thursday moved Camas County to the high-risk category.
Gooding County remains in the minimal risk category. Five other counties — Twin Falls, Jerome, Cassia, Minidoka and Lincoln — are in the moderate risk category in South Central Public Health District’s report.
Blaine County is no longer included in the assessment because it has adopted its own more stringent system.
The health district’s assessment is updated every two weeks. In the Sept. 10 report, Blaine and Gooding were in the minimal risk category and the other six counties were in moderate risk.
“Camas County’s average new case jumped dramatically because of local cluster of cases,” the Thursday report says. The county had an average of 10.33 new cases per 10,000 people in the past 14 days and the county has a COVID test positive rate of 10%.
The health district report shows that 10 of the 16 new cases Camas County in the past two weeks were in people between 14 and 17 years old.
Camas County has about 1,100 people according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The 10,000 person case rate is used to average out areas for a more accurate comparison to other areas.
Since the start of the pandemic, Camas has had 20 confirmed coronavirus cases and four probable cases. Fourteen of the cases are still being monitored by the health district.
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September 25, 2020 at 06:38AM
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