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Del Norte’s case count seems to have dropped, but that doesn’t mean the county will escape stricter COVID-19 restrictions.
However, Public Health Officer Dr. Warren Rehwaldt said he was ready to announce on the radio Thursday that he was “99 percent sure we’re going to drop” to the Purple Tier, but a bulletin from the California Department of Public Health made him change his mind.
“They’re making it a little harder to backslide,” Rehwaldt told the
Wild Rivers Outpost on Friday. “You have to have a worrisome case rate and a worrisome test positivity rate, and you have to have a hospitalization that is worrisome. They didn’t put a lot of numbers to this; they just changed it as a case by case basis.”