Lyon County Health Officer Renee Hively says the county’s active caseload is higher than she would like with all the talk of fully reopening the county, but she says she is glad coronavirus numbers have held fairly steady in the upper 40s to upper 50s the past two weeks.
Hively made her comments on KVOE’s Newsmaker segment Monday. She would rather see active cases around 20 before feeling comfortable in a full-blown reopen.
With over 20 states seeing both numbers and hospital stays on the increase, Kansas noting a so-called “superspreader incident” at a public pool in Arkansas City and fears of a second spike in China, Hively reiterated her request for Lyon County residents to be safe, meaning the use of masks in public, six-foot distance between people and staying home if you feel sick. Hively also recognizes people may be getting information “whiplash” because some of the guidance from federal health officials has changed during the pandemic, but she also says this is a new version of COVID-19 with a lot still unknown about its behaviors.
For more information, call Lyon County Public Health at 208-3741 or go online to www.publichealth.lyoncounty.org/covid-19.
