GF Health tweaks COVID-19 dashboard

Feeling better about COVID-19 the Grand Forks Health Department has dropped its color-coded chart for detailing community risk.

Although the four colored health officer dashboard is being retired local health officials will still produce a shortened daily update. The dashboard was launched in the summer of 2020 – and was slightly modified in 2021.

The health department’s Michael Dulitz says they will rely on the CDC’s three tier system as a primary indicator for risk levels.  “Based on our evaluation we are at a low level.  The CDC updates their website on a weekly basis.  Low level comes with no recommendation of mask wearing.”

Dulitz says only 2.7% of staffed hospital beds are being used to treat COVID patients.
New case counts have dropped into the single digits for Grand Forks County in recent days – with only one new case identified on Monday.