City of McCall lifts mask mandate; COVID-19 cases still low, but Idaho adds 8 deaths Rachel Roberts, The Idaho Statesman
May 8 The McCall City Council on Thursday lifted the mask mandate that was in effect inside city limits.
The order was expected to expire May 26, but city leaders approved a series of four metrics to monitor the impact of COVID-19 in the area at an April 22 meeting. When three of the four metrics are met, the council can consider terminating the order.
With three of the four metrics satisfied as of Thursday, the council chose to remove the mandate. The four mandates are: biweekly case rates remain in the green zone for four weeks; Valley County vaccine uptake for 16+ years of age reaches at least 65%; Valley County test positivity percentage remains below 5%; at least one dose of vaccine for 65+ across the Central District Health region reaches 75%.
By Kevin Zimmermann
Apr 15, 2021 5:12 PM
Data from the Sheboygan County Division of Public Health and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services indicate a fairly level rate of activity on many aspects of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic here.
While the State is displaying a 25% positive change in the trajectory of active cases over the past two weeks, Sheboygan County showed no significant change. The percent positive average here over the past seven days was 6.2%, having experienced a short peak of 7% one week ago; Wisconsin overall was still lower at 3.8%, unchanged compared to a week ago.
After reaching a low 7-day average of 363 new daily cases in Wisconsin on March 11th, that statistic rose to 808 on Thursday. For comparison to the state, on March 13th in Sheboygan County we had a seven-day average of new cases of 13. On the most recent day of statistics for Sheboygan County – April 13th – the figure had dropped to 9.
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After a significant advance was reported on Thursday, the Friday COVID update from the Sheboygan County Division of Public Health showed active cases down by one, with 197 persons now being watched. The 21 new positives were offset by 22 recoveries, and 13,408 in the county have now tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. 134 did not survive their battle. Hospitalizations have been increasing this past week, and Friday added another two patients to a total now at 8. 64 of the 85 test returns received were negative.
Wisconsin recorded over a thousand positive test results for a second consecutive day, with 1,092 such tests returned from a pool of 5,514. 5 more deaths push that toll to 6,672, and there were 88 more hospitalizations recorded. After deaths and discharges are accounted for, a net gain of 4 in the patient population occurred, and 290 are now hospitalized with COVID-19 across the state. 74 of those are in ICU beds, and 377 ventilators are in use.