COVID-19 INFORMATION FOR POLK COUNTY AND THE KROX LISTENING AREA (DECEMBER 31)

The Minnesota Department of Health released its COVID-19 Weekly Report (here) on Thursday. All information is updated through 4 p.m. on Wednesday, December 30 unless noted. Information on Polk County and the KROX listening area was pulled from the report and is below –

	Polk County	Minnesota
Tests	24,451	5,574,962
Positive Cases	3,198	415,302
Percent Positive Reported Tests	13.08%	7.45%
State Percent Positive Tests**	6.9%	7.6%
Case Rate per 10,000	1,012	751
Deaths	49	5,323
No longer require isolation	3,089	397,080
Open Cases	60	12,899

**Positive number of tests and positivity calculations include only tests reported by labs that report both positive and negative results. Percent positive is the percent of positive tests from the total number of tests by county of residence.

Zip Code	City	Population	Cases	Case Rate per 10,000	New Cases since 12/23 report
56517	Beltrami	279	15	538	0
56523	Climax	539	52	965	0
56535	Erskine	1,363	94	690	11
56540	Fertile	1,962	173	882	2
56542	Fosston	2,829	201	710	2
56556	McIntosh	1,160	116	1000	1
56568	Nielsville	142	5 or less	NA	NA
56592	Winger	516	36	698	2
56646	Gully	355	22	620	1
56684	Trail	282	27	957	0
56716	Crookston	9,416	959	1,018	12
56721	East Grand Forks	10,096	1,217	1,205	14
56722	Euclid	386	52	1,347	1
56723	Fisher	970	113	1,165	2
56736	Mentor	903	70	775	0

56750	Red Lake Falls	2,539	210	827	7
56713	Argyle	1,022	87	851	2
56757	Stephen	932	64	687	0
56762	Warren	2,494	222	890	1

SCHOOL LEARNING MODEL OPTIONS

Policy Option	14-day Case Rate per 10,000
All in-person	0 to less than 10
Elementary in-person/high school hybrid	10 to less than 20
Both hybrid	20 to less than 30
Elementary hybrid/high school distance	30 to less than 50
All Distance	50 or more

CASE RATE PER COUNTY

thru 12/19	14-day Case Rate per 10,000	Increase or (-) Decrease
Marshall	78.79	-35.14
Norman	21.34	-36.60
Polk	58.56	-56.03
Red Lake	62.38	-42.41