Grand Forks County is 39% of the way to coronavirus herd immunity goal
Grand Forks County public health workers believe the county will achieve herd immunity from a novel coronavirus if or when 60% of residents are fully vaccinated. 9:01 pm, Apr. 5, 2021 ×
Michael Dulitz, of the Grand Forks Public Health Department, gives a pandemic update to the City Council during a meeting in October. Eric Hylden / Grand Forks Herald
Grand Forks County is nearly halfway to herd immunity, a key threshold that public health workers hope to meet or exceed as they work to contain a novel coronavirus.
As of Sunday, April 4, 16,320 county residents have either received both doses of a Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine or the only needed dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. That’s 39.2% of the 41,671 people needed to reach “herd immunity,” a term that means enough people have been vaccinated against the virus and left it nowhere to go, epidemiologically speaking,
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Grand Forks County Commission moves to reopen fairgrounds
The Grand Forks County Commission’s unanimous vote, taken at a special meeting on Thursday, March 11, will allow the grounds to reopen at 80% of capacity for all indoor and outdoor events, provided the Grand Forks County Health Officer’s Dashboard, a tool created to track the spread of the illness, remains in the “green,” or low-risk, level. 4:54 pm, Mar. 11, 2021 ×
The Grand Forks County Office Building, photographed on Nov. 23, 2015. Photo by Nick Nelson/Grand Forks Herald
The Grand Forks County Commission has approved the reopening of the County Fairgrounds, with some restrictions.
The move to reopen the fairgrounds effectively repeals a vote made early in the pandemic to shutter the location in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The commission’s unanimous vote, taken at a special meeting on Thursday, March 11, will allow the grounds to reopen at 80% of capacity for all indoo
By Doug Barrett
Mar 8, 2021 7:42 AM
The Grand Forks School District will transition high school students back to classroom learning on an everyday basis starting this week. Students had been in a hybrid model due to coronavirus.
According to the North Dakota Health Department dashboard there are only three active cases of COVID-19 among students…and one active staff case…in Grand Forks County schools.
The local dashboard still has Grand Forks in the green or “low risk” category for the virus. Grand Forks County Health Officer Dr. Joel Walz is expected to rescind the mask mandate imposed back on January 18
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