Thursday marks the official end to the COVID state of emergency. Fayette County Community Health Officer Jessica Cobb said there’s been a decline in public health action for some time. She noted early on those contracting coronavirus were isolated for two weeks and quarantining contacts. With the ceasing of regular reporting of COVID data, Cobb added tracking spread will be similar to that for flu.
“It’s going to become a lot different in terms of being able to assess that and really what we had looked at was that hospitalization data for people who were getting extremely ill. But, now that we have a vaccine that people can receive, that burden has been lessening as well, since the beginning of the pandemic,” said Cobb.
