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COVID-19 Case Counts Drop in Del Norte, But Purple Tier Possibility Remains

### 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.”

Release: Nevada County may remain in red tier as state modifies criteria

From a release: The State has announced changes to the Blueprint for a Safer Economy that would make it more difficult for counties to move backwards in the Tier system. Based on these changes, it is possible Nevada County will remain in the Red Tier next week instead of moving backwards to the Purple Tier as previously expected. “If our numbers hold, we will not move backwards on Wednesday,” said Nevada County Public Health Director Jill Blake. State health officials said changes to the metrics were based on California’s progress in controlling the spread of COVID-19 and the successful administration of more than 20 million vaccine doses statewide. According to the State’s announcement, “Unless there are extenuating circumstances, such as low vaccination rates, a county will only move to a more restrictive tier if hospitalizations are increasing significantly among vulnerable individuals, especially among vaccinated individuals, and both test positivity and adjusted cas

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