<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">At the last board meeting we voted that masks would be optional when "<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">the community case rate 10 day average exceeds 5% in</span></div>Washington and Wood counties,<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">"  However, when we went to apply this rule, we found that the CDC doesn't report data that way any more.  It uses a set of three metrics to classify COVID risks as "Low, Medium or High."  We have to use the data the Center for Disease Control reports.  Therefore, I plan to support the following motion in the Annual Meeting tomorrow:  </span><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><b><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span></font>"Masks will be optional when the COVID-19 Community Level <span class="gmail_default">in Washington and Wood Counties as</span> reported by the C<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span>DC is "Low".  Masks will be required when the COVID-19 Community Level <span class="gmail_default">in either county </span>as reported by the CDC is "Medium" or "High".  </b></font><span class="gmail_default"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Currently the level in both Washington and Wood counties is "Low"</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">If you are interested to know how this is computed by the CDC, you can find the information on the following web site:</span></span></div><div>I<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/community-levels.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2F2019-ncov%2Fmore%2Faboutcovidcountycheck%2Findex.html" target="_blank" style="font-family:georgia,serif"> How the CDC Measures COVID-19 Community Levels.</a><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">  </span><br></div><div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">I will also paste it below.  However, we don't have to make these computations, the results are posted by the CDC every week.  If the CDC changes their metrics, which they sometimes do because of data availability, etc., we will  go with their metrics.</span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><img src="cid:ii_l2cbn05r0" alt="image.png" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span></div></div></div>