Map from May 29 for week that ended at midnight.
What do the colors mean?
Does NOT apply to Antifa, BLM, and other Insurrectionistas! /s
Posted on 06/05/2020 6:31:04 AM PDT by lightman
Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf is expected to announce which counties will be next to move into the green phase of his coronavirus reopening plan on Friday.
Who could make the cut?
As of 12:01 a.m. today, Friday, June 5, every county has exited the state’s complete stay at home order, otherwise known as the red phase. That means 33 counties are in the yellow phase, where aggressive mitigation must be practiced, while 34 are in the green, or the least restrictive phase of Wolf’s plan. Under it, all businesses can open again as long as they follow CDC and Pa. Department of Health guidelines.
Note, as well, that in the yellow phase, bars and restaurants can offer outdoor dining as long as social distancing and other practices like it are followed. Dine-in service, however, is only allowed in the green phase.
With all of that out of the way, Wolf and his administration have signaled that any county moving to the green must perform well in the yellow phase for 14 days against risk metrics related to the potential for community spread of COVID-19, how hospitals are doing in terms of capacity and ICU care availability, population density and age, plus how reopening will affect travel in and out of an area.
The 14-day timeline leaves the following yellow-phase counties as candidates, and remember, if a county is announced as moving to green this Friday, it probably won’t actually do so until next Friday, June 12:
Adams Beaver Carbon Columbia Cumberland Erie Juniata Mifflin Northumberland Perry Susquehanna Union Wyoming Wayne York
Of those, it would be a surprise if Erie, Northumberland, and Union were not designated to advance as they’ve been in the yellow phase for nearly a month now and score well on the Carnegie Mellon University COVID-19 county reopening scorecard that has been used by the state, in conjunction with other models, to make these decisions.
The model uses color-coded circles to assess where a county is in each metric; green is good, white is neutral, and orange and red flag areas of concern.
More: UPMC doctor says COVID-19 has become ‘less prevalent’ and isn’t making people as sick
Closer to the Harrisburg, Perry County also appears primed for a move to green, as it is only flagged by the ICU capacity risk. Cumberland, meanwhile, has no green dots and concerns tied to three of the six categories, which likely will force residents there to experience another week in the yellow zone. Adams County is in a similar boat, as it has orange markers in three risk categories but no red yet no green. York’s metrics indicate it might be facing another week in the yellow phase, too.
Elsewhere around the state, Columbia, Juniata, and Wyoming counties look to be places that should be strongly considered for the green phase, and then the next tier of hopefuls but not probables would include Susquehanna and Wayne. Beaver and Carbon counties are toss-ups leaning toward staying in yellow, based on the scorecard, which you can view for yourself with information updated through June 3 by clicking here.
All that said, a few factors make any sort of prognostication in this area a challenge. First, it’s unclear how the metrics are weighted, but it’s believed that some are more worrisome than others. Additionally, we don’t know many specifics about the other models that are being used to inform these decisions.
Right or wrong, we’ll know by the end of the day which counties get to fully open up again next. Be sure to check back to PennLive throughout the day for the latest.
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We are waiting for dick head to move Luzerne into green.
Isn’t it cute how the Patriot News engages in handicapping of people’s livelihoods like some horse race?
They forgot the footnote—rioters have no restrictions in all counties.
This puerile, iron-fisted Communist Wolf broke his own social distancing rules yesterday when he joined a mindless protest.
Have friends living in Philly burbs and they are telling me the restrictions are all but being ignored and have been for the past approx 2 weeks.
just re-open everything and end the power trips by petty tyrants.
mind you, it’s great to see Piers’s hypocrisy under attack:
5 Jun: Summit News: Piers Morgan Claims “Supermarkets Are Mass Gatherings” After Being Called Out on Rampant Hypocrisy
Social distancing Karen praises his own son for attending BLM rally.
by Paul Joseph Watson
Arch lockdown advocate Piers Morgan responded to criticism over how he praised his own son for attending a Black Lives Matter protest by claiming “supermarkets are mass gatherings.”...
Morgan has for the last 2 months been hyperventilating over the government ending the COVID-19 lockdown too soon and berating anyone suspected of violating “social distancing”...
Respondents on the TV host’s Twitter thread savaged his hypocrisy.
“If this was someone else’s son, you’d have tweeted at least 70 times about it by now, and probably accused them of killing people,” said one...
https://summit.news/2020/06/05/piers-morgan-claims-supermarkets-are-mass-gatherings-after-being-called-out-on-rampant-hypocrisy/
This is like the gun-grabbers claiming “the police will protect you”—and now we find out that the police will bend the knee to rioters.
2020 is an amazing year—the year we pulled back the curtain and found the Wizard!
Wolf and that he/she Health Director seem determined to destroy Penn economy.
Am from Boston but went to NE PA and York county PA last week and dealt with this.
Things shut down; dining outside or in car or hotel. Bushkill Falls closed; Roadside Anerica and Plain and Fancy Farm closed.
Valley Forge national park closed.
Going back for 10 days or so starting June 27—NE PA, York County, Pittsburgh and north to Erie area.One event I’ve booked is a “you drink, we drive” beer tasting bus tour in Pitt.
Notice the darkest blue is Hazleton.
‘Why is this fool still continuing with the lockdown hoax?’
because this state is apparently loaded with scared, quavering females. who all seem to have multiple sick grandmas, who are begging him to continue saving them...
>>Note, as well, that in the yellow phase, bars and restaurants can offer outdoor dining as long as social distancing and other practices like it are followed
Yet the yellow chart says takeout and
curbside delivery only under yellow.
Was able to eat just outside of places in Jim Thorpe and Matamoras.
Big sign in Milford on a building:
WE NEED TO OPEN
Those were the Dominicans who went back and forth to New York.
Firmly in Tommy’s pocket they are!
Some places. My driving range uses no masks and there is a sign for social distancing but i don’t see it. Stores the national chains all think the law requires masks and will not allow you to enter. DELCO.
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