Lane County is on high alert for risk of transmission of COVID-19. Public Health reports 200 people are currently infectious—an all-time high for the county during the pandemic.
This story has been updated with Friday's data from LCPH.
Raw case data from the county, state and University of Oregon is converted to a COVID-19 Alert Level dashboard. Public Health spokesperson Jason Davis says last week’s upward trajectory in cases and viral spread shoved Lane County out of the moderate level.
“Right now at HIGH, we’re asking people to reduce or eliminate most social gatherings,” he said.
Davis says disease investigators are falling behind because they are receiving cases at such a rapid rate. He says contact tracing can take over an hour on the phone with each positive case.
“We have individuals who have as few as five contacts and some people have as many as 30 or 40 contacts.”
Davis says public health has identified seven recent outbreaks in young people, specifically between 17 and 28 years old. He says that age group has more COVID-19 cases than all other age groups combined.
