No Counties Remain In 'Substantial' Transmission Level In PA

PENNSYLVANIA — The COVID-19 pandemic seems to be rapidly drawing to a close in Pennsylvania, as numbers on many key metrics draw closer and closer to zero.

The state reached another key milestone this week when they announced that all counties across the state were out of the "substantial" transmission category. The state has been placing counties in three groupings, substantial, moderate, and low, based on the severity of the outbreak in each respective community.

Gov. Tom Wolf joined health experts in continuing to urge anyone who has not yet received a vaccine to get one.

“Today we are not reporting any counties in the substantial level of transmission – which is great indicator of our fight against COVID-19,” Gov. Wolf said in a statement. “We need to remain resilient in the fight against COVID-19, starting with getting vaccinated and making our communities a safer place."

The statewide percent positivity rate is at its lowest mark of the pandemic, dropping another half a percent from 1.9 to 1.4 percent over the last seven days. A rate of 5 percent or below is considered "suppression" of the virus.

The total number of new cases almost nearly halved itself over that seven day period, falling from 2,228 to 1,370.

And healthcare metrics are following suite: the average daily number of hospitalizations due to COVID-19 fell over the last week from 688 to 461.

Here's a glance at how things look on a county by county level:

Low

Allegheny, Armstrong, Berks, Bucks, Cameron, Carbon, Chester, Clarion, Clearfield, Clinton, Columbia, Dauphin, Elk, Erie, Forest, Fulton, Greene, Indiana, Jefferson, Juniata, Lehigh, McKean, Montgomery, Montour, Northampton, Perry, Potter, Schuylkill, Snyder, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Union, Venango, Warren, Washington, Westmoreland, and Wyoming

Moderate

Adams, Beaver, Bedford, Blair, Bradford, Butler, Cambria, Centre, Crawford, Cumberland, Delaware, Fayette, Franklin, Huntingdon, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lawrence, Lebanon, Luzerne, Lycoming, Mercer, Mifflin, Monroe, Northumberland, Philadelphia, Pike, Somerset, Tioga, Wayne, and York

Substantial

None