Howard County Reaches ‘Substantial Level’ COVID-19 Transmission

COLUMBIA, Md. (WJZ) — Despite 1 of the highest vaccination rates successful the state, Howard County announced Wednesday it has reached “substantial level” of COVID-19 transmission by CDC standards.

The region is averaging 53.43 Covid cases per 100,000 implicit the past 7 days. Substantial submission is defined by the CDC arsenic betwixt 50 and 99 cases per 100,000 implicit a seven-day rolling average.

Howard County said successful its announcement the CDC recommends the pursuing measured for afloat vaccinated individuals:

• Wear a disguise indoors successful nationalist spaces to reduce the hazard of being infected with the Delta variant and perchance spreading it to others.
• Everyday activities should beryllium constricted to trim dispersed and support the wellness attraction system.
• Practice mundane preventative actions, including: washing your hands often, support six feet of carnal distance, debar crowds and poorly ventilated areas, screen coughs and sneezes, often disinfect commonly-touched surfaces.
• You mightiness take to deterioration a disguise careless of the level of transmission if you person a weakened immune strategy oregon if, due to the fact that of your property oregon an underlying aesculapian condition, you are at increased hazard for terrible disease, oregon if a subordinate of your household has a weakened immune system, is astatine accrued hazard for terrible disease, oregon is unvaccinated.
• If you’ve had close contact with idiosyncratic who has COVID-19, you should get tested 3-5 days aft your exposure, adjacent if you don’t person symptoms. You should besides deterioration a disguise indoors successful nationalist for 14 days pursuing vulnerability oregon until your trial effect is negative. You should isolate for 10 days if your trial effect is positive.
• Businesses and different workplaces whitethorn acceptable their ain policies to support nationalist wellness arsenic they deem appropriate.

Over 85% of region residents eligible for the vaccine person astatine slightest 1 dose, County Executive Calvin Ball announced

CBS Baltimore Staff