GF COVID risk level in green, but CDC calls transmission level ‘substantial’

By Pat Sweeney Aug 5, 2021 | 4:20 PM

Since mid-May, the Grand Forks Health Officer’s COVID-19 dashboard has had Grand Forks County in the green or “low” risk level.

But today’s (Thu’s) CDC transmission indicators have the County in a “substantial” transmission level, after being at a “moderate” level for the past week.

Michael Dulitz of the Grand Forks health department explained the difference:

“The CDC levels are much lower than what we’ve assigned for case levels in the Grand Forks area for our (local) dashboard, and so those were able to move up much more quickly, because we’ve moved over 50 cases per 100,000 in the past seven days as the total number of cases.”

The county dashboard shows 51.84 new cases per 100,000 in the last week, crossing the CDC threshold of 50 for “substantial” risk.

Dulitz says the local dashboard will likely remain in the “green” for a while, because the county factors in vaccination rates.

Grand Forks has a one-dose vaccination rate of nearly 55 percent among those 12 and older.

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