Grand Forks COVID gauge rises to high risk level
The elevation of the risk level comes after positive cases of the coronavirus trended up over the last week. The North Dakota Department of Health reported 23 new cases in Grand Forks County on Friday, April 9. 3:15 pm, Apr. 9, 2021 ×
Lab workers Marcia Wehe, left, and Sydney Kouba, process rapid coronavirus tests that yield results in 15 minutes. Adam Kurtz / Grand Forks Herald
After spending the last 23 days in the yellow “low risk” level, the Grand Forks Health Officer’s Dashboard,
Before reaching the yellow level on March 17, the dashboard remained in the low risk level for three weeks.
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 panel extends COVID-19 state of emergency
Former Mayor Mike Brown signed the first COVID-19 emergency declaration on March 16, 2020, and it s been extended by Grand Forks City Council members at every opportunity since then. Council members agreed to re-up that declaration for another 90 days for what could be one of the last times. 7:39 pm, Mar. 8, 2021 ×
Grand Forks City Hall, 255 N. 4th St. Sam Easter / Grand Forks Herald
Grand Forks officials are set to extend a COVID-19 declaration of emergency for what might be one of the last times.
City Council members, acting on Monday, March 8, as the Committee of the Whole, provisionally extended the city’s state of emergency for another 90 days, which means it would expire on June 30. They’re set to make a final decision next Monday.
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