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Declining new cases, hospitalizations and infection rates show Lancaster County residents have adhered to the latest coronavirus restrictions, the toughest since the spring shutdown, Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department Director Pat Lopez said Friday.
The county is on pace to end an eight-week stretch of increasing new cases, according to the Health Department.Â
Lancaster County s positivity rate has fallen to 27.4% from its local pandemic high of 33.9% set last week, she said.
COVID-19 hospitalizations, which had Lopez and local hospital officials stressed in their decisions and messaging, fell from a high of 177 on Nov. 29 to 116 patients on Friday, she said. We really feel that part of (the declines are) attributed to the community recognizing that we were really stressing the hospital system, Lopez said.Â