291 new cases of the Coronavirus were reported on Friday. The surge has not stopped and it has resulted in 91 local hospitalizations and more than 17-hundred people isolated and quarantined. Health officials say even though the Omicron variant is less severe than Delta, the immunocompromised and those with underlying conditions are still at risk. Butte County's skepticism when it comes to the vaccine continues to show in their infection rate and increasing hospitalizations. Only 53 percent of county residents are vaccinated with more than 5 percent receiving at least one shot. 41 percent of residents are not vaccinated. 23 percent of county residents have been vaccinated and boosted. Lisa Almaguer with Butte County Public Health told the ChicoER that the county's 25 percent positivity rate is very high. She says Butte County usually trails the trends seen around the state and those trends are showing Omicron slowing down.....although in many of those locations people are getting vaccinated and boosted at a much higher rate than here locally