Indiana’s Elkhart County this week moved back into the “red” advisory level that indicates the counties in the state with the worst spread of the COVID-19 virus.
With the change, Elkhart County is one of just six counties in the state to be listed under the red designation on the Indiana State Department of Health’s COVID-19 metric map.
According to the most recent data posted by the state, Elkhart had a weekly rate of 348 new cases of the coronavirus per 100,000 residents, while the latest available data on the county’s positivity rate showed a seven-day average of 15.02 percent.
A weekly rate of 200 or more new cases per 100,000 residents puts a county in the red for that metric, while a seven-day positivity rate of 15 percent or more qualifies for the red designation under that metric.
According to Elkhart County Health Officer Dr. Bethany Wait, the biggest reason behind the county’s rising COVID-19 cases can be tied to the county’s relatively low overall vaccination rate.
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