COVID-19 INFORMATION FOR POLK COUNTY AND THE KROX LISTENING AREA (MARCH 11)

The Minnesota Department of Health released its COVID-19 Weekly Report (here) on Thursday.  All information is updated through 4 p.m. on Wednesday, March 10 unless noted. Information on Polk County and the KROX listening area was pulled from the report and is below – 

	Polk County	Minnesota
Tests	32,725	7,663,467
Positive Cases	3,458	494,106
State Percent Positive Tests**	5.8%	6.6%
Case Rate per 10,000	1,090	882
Deaths	63	6,724
No longer require isolation	3,349	479,713
Open Cases	26	7,669

**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 3/3
56517	Beltrami	279	19	681	1
56523	Climax	539	53	983	-1
56535	Erskine	1,363	104	763	2
56540	Fertile	1,962	198	1,009	2
56542	Fosston	2,829	224	792	0
56556	McIntosh	1,160	123	1,060	1
56568	Nielsville	142	5 or less	NA	NA
56592	Winger	516	36	698	0
56646	Gully	355	27	761	0
56684	Trail	282	42	1,489	0
56716	Crookston	9,416	1,039	1,103	4
56721	East Grand Forks	10,096	1,300	1,288	7
56722	Euclid	386	54	1,399	1
56723	Fisher	970	117	1,206	0
56736	Mentor	903	73	808	0
56750	Red Lake Falls	2,539	245	965	5
56713	Argyle	1,022	95	930	3
56757	Stephen	932	81	869	1
56762	Warren	2,494	252	1,010	3

 

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 2/27	14-day Case Rate per 10,000	Increase or (-) Decrease
Marshall	30.88	-17.03
Norman	65.56	16.77
Polk	15.51	1.58
Red Lake	54.89	-2.50