MENDOCINO Co., 3/28/20 — Mendocino County Public Health Officer Dr. Noemi Doohan announced this afternoon the confirmation of the third case of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mendocino County. This person resides inland, but was traveling and as such this does not appear to be a case of “community spread.”
Community spread is, roughly, a situation in which the virus has spread to enough people that it’s unclear how people with new cases were infected. So far all three cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Mendocino County by laboratory test have been in people who were traveling and thus appear to have contracted the disease outside of the county. This has been considered a good sign that social distancing, and sheltering-in-place, precautions have so far been successful in keeping the virus from spreading widely through our population.
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