Following up on our
brief report on Reston’s COVID-19 situation 10 days ago, Virginia health
data shows that the number of cases locally has grown 35% in the last ten days. This is less than the growth rate for
COVID-19 in the county and state, but more than double the national case growth
rate.
The highest number of cases in Reston is in the south Reston
area (ZIP 20191) with 187 cases, but the highest case rate (cases/100K people)
is in central Reston (ZIP 20190). Still, the highest growth rate (changes in the number cases over the last 10 days) is in
north Reston (ZIP 20194) at 50%, largely because it had so few cases 10 days ago. A little pain spread throughout all of
Reston.
More worrisome is the substantially higher case rate in
Fairfax County—double that of the state as a whole and half again as high as
the nation as a whole. It is clear why
the Governor kept northern Virginia on lock down for an extra period, but it is
not clear that the added two weeks will be sufficient. We wonder why Fairfax County continues to perform so poorly in preventing COVID-19.
We will update this periodically.
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