By Nia Bender
COLORADO SPRINGS – The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment launched a whole new way to measure Covid-19, aimed at helping local governments and Coloradans navigate and apply safety guidance throughout the pandemic.
Based on the new scale, El Paso County is currently in “Safer at Home level 1, Cautious.” The level indicates the county is currently meeting the following three metrics of a five percent or less test positivity rate. The county’s two-week positivity rate is 2.42 percent. There also has to be between zero and 75-cases per 100-thousand people and right now that’s at 61.5. There can also be no more than two new Covid-19 hospital admissions per day.
The level returns El Paso County to the capacity levels it had achieved with its approved variances.
