coronavirus
New coronavirus case volume down 23% past week vs. past month
Feb. 22. The decline is the median number of new COVID cases during the past week (3,167) vs. the past month (4,130) is continuing in North Carolina. The new case volume is down 23 percent this past week compared to the past 31 days, based on data from Johns Hopkins University. (See chart.) The NC […]
Feb. 19 COVID update: 1.2 million first doses administered
Feb. 19. By Dave Yochum. Nearly 1.2 million first doses and more than 600,000 second doses have been administered in North Carolina, according to today’s report from the NC. Dept. of Health & Human Services. Scientists had a head start in developing the vaccines thanks to years of previous work to develop vaccines for similar […]
COVID-19 update Feb. 17
Feb. 17. With President Biden suggesting things won’t get back to normal until around Christmas, the rate of new coronavirus cases during the past week was 21.7 percent lower than the preceding 31 days. (See chart, based on Johns Hopkins data.) The NC Dept. of Health & Human Services is reporting 3,167 new cases today, […]
NCDHHS: Hospitalizations, deaths due to COVID-19 drop
Feb. 15. The NC Dept. of Health & Human Services at noon reported statewide hospitalizations were down 17 percent in the space of a single week, even as Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, says the next 14 weeks will be the most difficult […]
COVID-19 hospitalizations down 45% from a month ago
Feb. 12. Today’s COVID-19 update from the NC Dept. of Health & Human Services once again shows fewer hospitalizations statewide as well as deaths due to the coronavirus back under 100 total for the day. Meanwhile, the median daily volume of new cases over the past seven days (4,172) compared to the median of the […]
Coronavirus trends: NCDHHS data show some are in the right direction
Feb. 10. COVID-19 hospitalizations and the percent positive rate continue to drop statewide, according to the NC Dept. of Health & Human Services. Hospitalizations across North Carolina have declined to levels not seen since early December. The median daily volume of new cases over the past seven days (4,172) compared to the median of the […]
Meck deaths due to COVID-19 down from a month ago; vaccines opening to teachers
Feb. 10. Based on Johns Hopkins’ COVID-19 data, the median of new COVID-19 cases per day over the past week is down 21 percent from the median daily volume over the past 31 days. There were 3,833 new cases of the coronavirus statewide in today’s NC Dept. of Health & Human Services report, up from […]
How to apply for NC Education Corps
Feb. 9. Students attending Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools will benefit from a new partnership between the NC State Board of Education, the Office of the Governor, local school systems and the N.C. Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service. The NC Education Corps will provide emergency relief to public schools by employing talented community members—including current college students […]
New cases of coronavirus trend down, based on a week vs. a month of data
Feb. 9. Based on Johns Hopkins’ COVID-19 data, the increase in the median number of new COVID-19 cases continues to fall. The median daily volume of new cases over the past seven days (4,674) is down 23.3 percent from the past 31 (6,096), computed through Feb. 8. There were 2,786 new cases of the coronavirus […]
Johns Hopkins data: NC below region average in deaths per 10,000
Feb. 5. By Dave Yochum. Using Johns Hopkins’ Center for Systems Science and Engineering’s COVID-19 data, along with the US Census Bureau’s population statistics, we computed the number of COVID-19 deaths per ten thousand people in the Southeast United States. North Carolina is well below the region’s average number of deaths per 10,000, 13.34, at […]
