The Fishers Health Department has some good news for local residents  – the community risk rate has been lowered to the lowest level, green or Level 1.  That’s the word from the latest Health Department video from epidemiologist Joshua Robinson posted Tuesday.  This is the first time Fishers has been at the lowest risk level since the pandemic began.

Robinson cites consistent lower positivity rates and case incidence rates for the city over the past few weeks.

There is a 4-Level system to gauge the COVID community risk.  Fishers was at one time in the highest, Level 4, or red category.  The numbers of have going down and the city’s risk level has also been headed down (a good thing) for the past several months.

The high vaccination rate in Fishers has contributed to the better risk numbers, according to Robinson.  The city’s full vaccination rate is at least 66%.

The positive cases Fishers health officials are seeing tend to be in the 16-19 year age group, which has been eligible for the vaccine the shortest amount of time for any eligible vaccination grouping.  Robinson encourages everyone eligible, particularly in the younger age group, to get the vaccination.