Kansas counties at CDC’s high COVID level drops to 0 as state reports 1.3K new cases

No Kansas counties are at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s high COVID-19 community level this week, after 11 were at high last week.

Twelve counties are at medium as of Thursday’s update, and Sedgwick County remains at low for another week.

The counties at medium level are Clark, Grant, Stanton, Ness, Osborne, Mitchell, Jewell, Washington, Marshall, Leavenworth, Wyandotte and Cherokee.

The CDC updates the metric each Thursday for U.S. counties and bases the assessment on the number of new cases and hospitalizations per 100,000 people (seven-day totals) and the percent of staffed hospital beds occupied by COVID-positive patients (a seven-day average).

In counties at high, the CDC recommends wearing a mask in public, indoor settings. That recommendation extends to medium-level counties for those at greater risk for severe illness.