With fewer public health reports and more testing at home, it's harder now to monitor the rise in cases in the D.C. area.
Montgomery County officials said Wednesday they were not considering plans to reinstate a mandate. Interim health officer James Bridgers said he expects cases to peak and plateau in the highly vaccinated county without causing significant increases in hospitalizations or deaths, though officials are prepared to change course swiftly, especially if case rates surge after schools return from spring break.
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and council member Kenyan R. McDuffie caught the virus earlier this month; both said their symptoms were mild. Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeffrey C. McKay called his own symptoms “uncomfortable but manageable.”When Arlington County Supervisor Matt de Ferranti got sick, he sent a letter to residents, noting a sharp uptick in cases in Arlington and urging people to wear masks and get vaccinated.
“Throughout the pandemic, we’ve never had the full picture,” O’Donnell said at a news briefing Wednesday. When covid-19 first arrived, he noted, testing wasn’t readily available. The virus could spread asymptomatically, suggesting there were large groups of people carrying and spreading it unwittingly. And in late 2021, a cyberattack crippled Maryland’s covid-19 data reporting system for weeks.“There have always been more cases than what our data represents,” O’Donnell said.
“People reacting to a test result is way more important than us having the test results at the back end,” he said.
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