Yesterday was a big day, as we officially entered the red tier, with businesses able to expand their operations and more activities resuming, albeit still with significant limits and required modifications. After months in the purple tier and the regional stay at home order over the holidays, this change is being met not just with a collective sigh of relief, but renewed hope for what’s to come.
Sure, we only just qualified for the red tier, but with our testing positivity rate solidly in the orange tier and case rates continuing to decline, there is already talk of when we might reach the next milestone.
Just as the state set a goal of 2 million vaccine doses administered in communities most at risk statewide to increase eligibility for the red tier, it has now set a goal of 4 million to move the bar once again. I’ve made some notes on the state’s chart below to try to explain this:
