After 9 months of dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic, three Southern Indiana counties have crossed into the “Red” zone for Indiana’s health department, indicating a high-rate of the spread of the Coronavirus.
Scott, Jackson and Washington County were all classified in the highest’s ranking during the pandemic so far.
The maps and scores are updated each Wednesday.
According to the Washington County Health Department in a statement yesterday, the county could hold on to this designation for two weeks before the designation is moved back to “Orange.”
There are three factors taken into consideration when assigning colors by the ISDH:
Weekly Score
- ■ Blue (0 and .5)
- ■ Yellow (1 and 1.5)
- ■ Orange (2 and 2.5)
- ■ Red (3)
Weekly Cases Per 100,000 Residents
- ■ Less Than 10 new cases(0)
- ■ 10 to 99 new cases(1)
- ■ 100 to 199 new cases(2)
- ■ 200 or more(3)
7-Day All Tests Positivity Rate
- ■ Less than 5% (0)
- ■ 5% to 9.9% (1)
- ■ 10% to 14.9% (2)
- ■ 15% or greater (3)
The state uses two metrics to calculate the score — the 7 Day All Positive Rate and the Weekly Cases Per 100,000 Residents.
To calculate each county’s new score, the Indiana Department of Health identities all new positive cases that were collected and resulted in the period from Monday through Sunday. This number is then divided by each county’s total county population and multiplied by 100,000.
After calculating the individual scores for each of the metrics, the two scores are averaged
together to determine the total county score.
Scott, Jackson, and Washington all scored “3” on the map which indicates the highest color rating and a rate of positive increase of 15 percent or greater and weekly cases of 200 or more.
Changes in the map from last week include:
- Lake County – No change (RED)
- Newton County – Moved from Red to Orange
- White County – Moved from Orange to Red
- Warren County – Moved from Orange to Red
- Parke County – No change (RED)
- Sullivan County – Moved from Red to Orange
- Jackson County – Moved from Orange to Red
- Scott County – Moved from Orange to Red
- Washington County – Moved from Orange to Red
- Switzerland County – Moved from Orange to Yellow
- Dearborn County – No change (RED)
- Ripley County – Moved from Red to Orange
- Franklin County – Moved from Red to Orange
- Fayette County – Moved from Red to Orange
- Rush County – Moved from Yellow to Orange
- Elkhart County – Moved from Red to Orange
- LaGrange County – No change (RED)
- Steuben County – Moved from Red to Orange
- DeKalb County – Moved from Orange to Red
- Whitley County – No change (RED)
- Allen County – No change (RED)
- Wabash County – No change (RED)
- Grant County – No change (RED)
- Blackford County – No change (RED)
- Jay County – No change (RED)
