Local COVID-19 Decision-Making Dashboard
The Local COVID-19 Decision Making Dashboard provides criteria and associated data to be considered by local officials when making decisions related to addressing impacts associated with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. LCPH consults with public health officials from neighboring Broadwater and Jefferson Counties, local emergency managers, local school leadership, and leadership within the local hospital/health care system routinely to establish and evaluate these criteria. These criteria may be used to inform decisions regarding movement between phases of the Governor’s Reopening the Big Sky strategy, decisions made under the requirements of local Orders of the Health Officer, and/or to inform other processes such as business and school reopening plans. These criteria coupled with the best professional judgment of LCPH, and other local officials, will serve to inform safe and healthy decisions for our community during the pandemic.
DISCLAIMER: COVID-19 is a novel disease caused by a novel coronavirus. As such, the approach to evaluating and understanding the impact of available data and local conditions related to COVID-19 will continue to change. Therefore, Lewis and Clark Public Health must continually evaluate current local conditions and consider such information when making decisions impacting the communities and people we are charged with protecting. Due to the ever-changing status and our collective understanding of COVID-19, it is not uncommon for a decision, or even the criteria on which a decision is made, to require review and change. NOTE: DECISIONS MADE TODAY, AND BASED ON THE CRITERIA CONTAINED IN THE DECISION MAKING DASHBOARD, ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE BASED UPON CURRENT COVID-19 CONDITIONS AND THE EVOLVING APPLICATION OF RELEVANT AND AVAILABLE DATA.
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Decision Making Criteria
Health Department Capacity | Past Measurement | Current Measurement |
Ability to manage work related to COVID-19 pandemic without additional staffing | Contact tracers: 31
| Contact tracers: 18
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Healthcare System Capacity | ||
Ability of hospital to treat all patients safely, those with COVID-19 and those with other ailments, without additional staffing | ICU capacity: Variable
| ICU capacity: Variable
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Testing Capacity | Past Measurement | Current Measurement |
Sufficient staff and supplies to screen and test all local residents with COVID-19 symptoms | Testing kits: Y
| Testing kits: Y
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Ability of the Health Department to get local positive test results in timely manner (within 2 days or less) | Yes
| Yes
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Case Investigation | ||
No significant increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases |
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Type of disease exposure | Travel-related: 2.3%
| Travel-related: 3.5%
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Average number of direct contacts per positive case | 4 per case
| 2 per case
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Disease Surveillance | Past Measurement | Current Measurement |
Evidence of coronavirus in wastewater | Helena: Detected Technical bulletin for wastewater testing
| Helena: Detected Technical bulletin for wastewater testing
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Sentinel screening of populations with no symptoms | Long-term care, asstd living: Y
| Long-term care, asstd living: Y
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Community Compliance | ||
Total number and nature of complaints related to non-compliance with orders and directives | Total complaints: 1254 (+1/week)
| Total complaints: 1256 (+2/week)
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Emergency Rules and Regulations (Scores are updated every other Thursday) | ||
Weekly Score | Average 2 Week Total (8<18) | |