Community transmission rate in Travis County skyrockets to Stage 5 threshold

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- The same week national health leaders announced the omicron variant likely accounts for more than 70% of the cases of COVID-19 in the United States, Austin-Travis County's community transmission rate (CTR) has shot upwards.
Local health leaders have previously said CTR was being added as a metric on the COVID-19 risk-based guidelines because it was a way to adjust behavior before hospitals were overwhelmed, instead of as a product of it.Health leaders switched up their risk-base