Kern County’s COVID-19 transmission rate remained low for the past week, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In fact, the rate of transmission in almost all of California and much of the United States was at an all-time low. In California, only Lassen, Plumas, and Siskiyou counties were at medium transmission rates and no counties were at high transmission rates.
The CDC uses three rankings to measure community levels of COVID-19 by county across the United States. On a map, counties colored in green are identified as having low transmission rates; yellow indicates medium transmission rates and orange-colored counties have high transmission rates.