Phillips County moved to blue on COVID dial

Phillips County moved to level blue on the State's new COVID dial. The change took place Saturday morning, Feb. 6 following official notification from the Northeast Colorado Health Department the day before. Phillips County had been, since the end of last year, in the designated orange, or high risk, level on the dial.

In her notification to the Phillips County Commissioners, Trish McClain, Public Health Director at the NCHD, said she was unaware that counties could skip a level but given the metrics of the newly published 2.0 COVID dial, Phillips County landed on blue, or caution.

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