Most New England counties are at a medium to low-risk level for COVID-19 transmission, new CDC data shows, but there are some high-risk communities as well.
How a county comes to be designated green, yellow or orange will depend on its rate of new COVID-19 hospital admissions, the share of staffed hospital beds occupied by COVID-19 patients and the rate of new cases in the community.All but one county in Massachusetts is colored green, which means low risk for COVID-19 transmission, the exception being Hampshire County, which is yellow for medium risk.
In tonight’s Daily Debrief, students and school staff are no longer required to mask up inside Massachusetts schools. Plus, a fast-moving fire tears through multiple homes in East Boston. And, the final episode of “Arthur” airs on PBS after nearly 30 years on television.All counties in the state of Maine are colored yellow, which indicates medium risk for COVID-19 transmission.
"When we reduce these measures, we increase our vulnerability of having transmission continue to go high," says Jessica Malaty Rivera, an epidemiologist at the Pandemic Prevention Institute. She joined LX News to talk about mask restrictions and what loosening them could mean for the nation.All counties in the state of Rhode Island have the color green, which means they're listed as low risk for COVID-19 transmission.
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