California now the only state that’s advanced out of CDC’s ‘high’ COVID transmission category - San Francisco Chronicle

Sep 15, 2021

Community transmission levels by state as of Sept.

California no longer has “high” community levels of coronavirus transmission, according to data published Tuesday by the U.S.

The United States as a whole remains at a “high” level of community transmission, according to the CDC, with a seven-day average of 248 new cases per 100,000 — more than two times higher than the threshold of 100 cases for the classification.

Even though hospitalizations in the state, and especially the Bay Area, have stabilized, COVID-19 deaths and cases nationwide have climbed back to levels not seen since the winter surge.

is averaging over 1,800 COVID-19 deaths and 170,000 new cases per day, the highest levels, respectively, since early March and late January.