YOUNG

Pub­lic health of­fi­cials look at a va­ri­ety of met­rics, in­clud­ing new cases, per­cent pos­i­tive test re­sults, hos­pi­tal­iza­tions and deaths to gauge the level of spread in an area. Covid-19 deaths haven’t yet seen the same in­creases as cases, pos­i­tive test re­sults and hos­pi­tal­iza­tions, in part be­cause the U.S. is now iden­ti­fy­ing more mild and mod­er­ate cases as test­ing ex­pands and those cases are now skew­ing younger.