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FAIRFIELD — Local health officials who have been watching case numbers and testing rates climb reported Tuesday that Solano County is still close to moving into the less restrictive orange tier. That assessment is based on state numbers that put the county’s case rate, for the week of March 14-20, at 24 per day, the health equity rate at 2.3% and the positivity testing rate at 1.9%. The last of those figures qualifying as yellow. The county’s case rate for that week was about 32.6 cases per day, the equity rate from the state was
2.3% and the testing positivity rate was more than 5%. Moreover, the state also announced Tuesday that it has administered 3.5 million vaccine doses to the poorest quartile in the state, closing in on the 4 million mark that would relax the orange tier case threshold. “They have not told us what that would be, matyas but it would be up from 18,” Dr. Bela Matyas, the county public health officer, said in a phone interview. When the state reached 2 million vaccinations in that quartile, it pushed the red tier threshold from
under 31 to 45, which allowed the county to step out of purple. That all adds up to a more positive outlook for Solano. “Because of the other numbers, it is not impossible,” Matyas said about graduating to the orange tier. “And since it benefits us, I’m not inclined to argue with them.” Matyas said the frustrating part of the county’s real-time numbers climbing is that it negatively affects the goal of getting more businesses open and operating to pre-pandemic levels. See Orange, Page A10
Survey: Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy drops among all Americans Emmarie Huetteman Kaiser Health News
A new poll of attitudes toward Covid-19 vaccinations shows Americans are growing more enthusiastic about being vaccinated, with the most positive change in the past month occurring among Black Americans. About 55% of Black adults said they had been vaccinated or plan to be soon, up 14 percentage points
from February, according to a poll released Tuesday by KFF. The rate now approaches that of Hispanics, at 61%, and whites at 64%. (Asian Americans were not polled in sufficient numbers to compare their responses with other racial and ethnic groups.) But the poll found that 13% of respondents overall said they will “definitely not” See Survey, Page A10
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