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Gov. Wolf and Sec. Beam today released a status update from the COVID-19 Early Warning Monitoring System Dashboard, comparing the period of Feb. 5 – 11 to the previous seven days and highlighting an increase of 19,621 cases.
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Pennsylvania COVID-19 Early Warning Monitoring Dashboard Update for Jan. 22-28: Case Increases Near 26,000; Percent Positivity at 9.3% and 63 Counties with Substantial Transmission
February 01, 2021
Governor Tom Wolf and Acting Secretary of Health Alison Beam today released a weekly status update detailing the state’s mitigation efforts based on the COVID-19 Early Warning Monitoring System dashboard, highlighting a seven-day case increase of 25,985, a statewide percent positivity of 9.3% and 63 counties wit
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travel recommendations.
The dashboard is designed to provide early warning signs of factors that affect the state’s mitigation efforts. The data available on the Early Warning Monitoring dashboard includes week-over-week case differences, incidence rates, test percent-positivity, and rates of hospitalizations, ventilations and emergency room visits tied to COVID-19. This week’s update compares the period of January 15 – January 21 to the previous seven days, January 8 – January 14.
“After six straight weeks of all 67 counties reporting in the substantial level of transmission, we now have one county moving into the low level of transmission category – a great sign of progress,” Gov. Wolf said. “But there is still more work for us to do and we must not become complacent. I believe we can keep up these best public health practices to continue to bring the transmission of COVID-19 down in our communities, keep each other safe, and move forward with rollout of