Pacific County Health Department has received notice of 39 additional positive COVID-19 cases last week. This brings the total case count to 509 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Public health nurses are monitoring 47 active cases. Pacific County's average case rate per 100,000 population over the past 14 days is 351.
"You can see that our case rate per 100,000 has gone down considerably," said PCDOH Director Katie Lindstrom. Last week's case rate per 100,000 was 984.3 for 14 days. "[The case rate] is still very high, still about 4 times higher than the high-risk category, but much, much lower than the week before. It looks like we are moving in the right direction."
Raymond Fire Chief Todd Strozyk said during last week's Raymond Council Meeting, "We are seeing a high number of patients who either have or are suffering from symptoms of COVID with our crews. Our call volume has increased in the last couple of weeks. We are seeing a lot of people with respiratory illnesses and a lot of people who have already been diagnosed with COVID. Hopefully, in the next two or three weeks, we are going to get some of our crews vaccinated again COVID-19. So we can keep doing our jobs."
PCDOH continues to urge the public to practice personal protective measures including frequent handwashing, limiting social gatherings, and maintaining 6 feet physical distance and wearing a mask while around others.