Nevada County has joined more than half the state’s population in issuing an indoor mask mandate. That’s public settings and businesses, and regardless of vaccination status. It takes effect on Friday. The order also strongly recommends that everyone wear face coverings outdoors in crowded settings or events, such as concerts. It comes on the heels of soaring case rates. Public Health Officer, Doctor Scott Kellermann, says our case rate is now the second-highest among all counties. He says the Delta variant is now labeled “younger, sicker, and quicker”, in comparison with the original virus….

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Kellerman says over 30-percent of the county’s population, 12 and older, has had no COVID shot. But he says the full vaccination rate, which is only around 50 to 55-percent, would need to get to around 90-percent, to make a significant difference in stopping the spread…

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The western county, which includes Grass Valley and Nevada City, has about 35-hundred more cases than the eastern county, or nearly five-thousand, since the pandemic began.