County falls short of school COVID benchmarks
Pinal County dashboard Aug. 27, 2020/inMaricopa
Thursday’s numbers for COVID-19 mitigation benchmarks were one step forward and one step back for schools wanting to bring students back to campus.
Pinal County had already achieved one of the three recommended benchmarks and today learned it had half of another. But a third benchmark was a failure. Numbers in the school dashboard do not include the current week.
Since July, Pinal County has achieved the benchmark of two consecutive weeks with hospital visits for COVID-like illnesses below 10%. That rate is currently reported at 3.7%.
