COVID-19 cases have been going up.
Adults need to be vaccinated.
And people need to continue wearing masks, washing their hands and social distancing to protect themselves and others from the deadly virus.
Sukstorf is the infectious disease specialist at Methodist Fremont Health.
âThe cases from week to week are anywhere from steady to going up and that has been the trend over the last few weeks,â she said.
Sukstorf attributes the increase to laxity in non-pharmaceutical measures such as wearing masks and social distancing.
âWeâre not at that point of herd immunity with vaccinations,â she said.
Herd immunity, as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is a situation where a sufficient proportion of the population is immune to an infectious disease to make its spread from person to person unlikely.