Local experts puzzled at CDC’s high-risk rating for Galveston County
The Galveston County Daily News, March 1, 2022
For about half of the counties in the country, which contain 70 percent of the U.S. population, the CDC advised people could unmask indoors. But it continued to recommend indoor masking for areas like Galveston County. “I am trying to study the metrics that CDC has provided. They don’t actually give the actual data that they’re extracting,” said Dr. Janak Patel, director of infection control and health care epidemiology at the University of Texas Medical Branch. “I have a feeling that Galveston County got a worse rating than Harris County because we have a large health care system that serves multiple counties.”