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GOVERNANCE & MINISTRY
by Dan Hotchkiss
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Covid Policy for the Long Run
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Photo by Maxime on Unsplash For reasons too familiar to go into, leaders in the political and public health realms have become allergic to pandemic mandates. Rules became advice, advice became guidelines—leaving leaders of school districts, universities, and congregations to make decisions based on gut feelings and political alignments. Community leaders need a firmer way to ground their Covid policies in science. One ray of hope, I think, comes with the new “Covid-19 Community Levels” framework from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Using a quick, straightforward website, anyone can get the Community Level for each county in the country. Unlike some early efforts to quantify the Covid threat based on one or two statistics, the Community Levels combine hospitalization rates, hospital burden, and case rates. Green, Yellow, Orange The result is a single risk level, updated every Thursday evening that rates each county by risk level: Green (low),
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