County Emergency Management Update of September 20

Below is Warren County Emergency Services Coordinator Rick Farrall’s “brief” update of Monday, September 20, 2021. It includes continued numbers showing the county lagging behind state-wide COVID-19 vaccination rate by nearly 20% – 40.3% compared to the state-wide rate of 58.8%; and ahead in cases-per-100,000 population that allows comparisons between larger and smaller communities – 545 cases-per here compared to state-wide rate of 292.8 (252 more cases per a 100,000 population than the state-wide average).

1. Hazardous Weather (as of 10:11 AM EDT Mon Sept. 20, 2021).

(a) DAY ONE (Today and Tonight).  No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

(b) DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN (Tuesday through Saturday).  Isolated instances of flooding are possible Wednesday night into Thursday.  Isolated severe thunderstorms with damaging wind gusts are possible Wednesday night into Thursday.

2. COVID-19 Data (Summary).

(a)  As of today (data from 9/12-9/18), the County’s rate of new cases per 100,000 persons is 545.0, and is considered “High” (by comparison, the State rate is 292.8, and is also considered “High”).  Our percentage of PCR tests that are positive is reported at 15.5% (by comparison, the State rate is 11.1%).

(b)  The County’s current hospitalization count is 3.5% and the death count is 1.5% of the case count.

(c)  The County’s (COVID-19) fully vaccinated rate is 40.3%; the State rate is 58.8%.

(d)  Recommend all County/Town citizens, employees, and employers reinforce basic public health preventative measures, as appropriate.

(e)  vdh.virginia.gov/coronavirus/

COVID-19 Level of Community Transmission – Coronavirus To determine the level of community transmission, CDC and VDH recommend the use of two measures: total number of new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 persons in the past 7 days and the percentage of nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) including RT-PCR COVID-19 tests that are positive during the last 7 days. www.vdh.virginia.gov

3. Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC)

(a) The next scheduled LEPC meeting is to be determined; anticipate the meeting on November 18, 2021 (3:00 pm to 4:30 pm).  Invitations and information to follow.