covid-19
COVID update: March 17. Reporting goes weekly.
March 17. Beginning on Wednesday March 23, the NCDHHS COVID-19 report goes weekly. Data will include Wastewater Surveillance, COVID-Like Illness in Emergency Departments, Hospital Admissions, COVID-19 Cases, Booster Rates, Prevalence of Variants, and CDC COVID-19 Community Levels. The NCDHHS dashboard will no longer include testing or contract tracing. Thursday’s data: New cases statewide: 1,223 New […]
COVID update March 16
March 16. The volume of new COVID cases rose to 1,519 today after dipping to 649 yesterday, according to the NCDHHS. Statewide COVID hospitalizations fell to 799, less than a third the number hospitalized exactly one month ago. There were 39 new COVID-related deaths statewide. Testing The statewide positivity rate remained at 2.6 percent for […]
COVID update March 15: Hospitalizations continue to fall
March 15. The volume of new COVID cases rose to 649 today as the pandemic tests the waters of endemic status. Hospitalizations fell again, to 832 statewide. Deaths fell to five statewide, still a painful number for survivors Testing The statewide positivity rate remained at 2.6 percent for a second day as per NCDHHS. The […]
COVID update: New cases, hospitalizations fall
March 14. The volume of new COVID cases fell to 373 today as hospitalizations continued to tumble, falling to 854 statewide in today’s NCDHHS report. Deaths The NCDHHS also reported 39 new deaths statewide over the weekend, for a total of 22,961 over two years. Testing The statewide positivity rate fell to 2.6 percent. The Mecklenburg […]
COVID hospitalizations under 1,000 for the first time in 8 months
March 12. The volume of new COVID cases climbed to 1,849 Friday after dipping on Thursday. Hospitalizations continued to tumble, dropping below 1,000 statewide for the first time since July. On Feb. 11, 3,556 North Carolinians were hospitalized due to COVID, compared to 965 on Friday March 11. Deaths The NCDHHS also reported reported 30 […]
COVID update March 10: Not quite an endemic, but Mayo doc says we’re close
March 10. The volume of new COVID cases fell to 1,783 today after climbing for two days. Two years after the global pandemic began, rates of infection, hospitalization and deaths are tumbling, but a Mayo Clinic infectious diseases specialist says it’s still too early to call the pandemic over. Are we in the endemic phase […]
COVID update March 9
March 9. The volume of new COVID cases climbed to 1,833 today after being below 1,000 for two days in a row. Still, it’s a big improvement from Feb. 9, when the NC Dept. of Health & Human Services reported 10,513 new cases statewide. Hospitalizations COVID-related hospitalizations fell to 1,093 today after climbing slightly to […]
COVID update: New cases, hospitalizations bump up
March 8. The volume of new COVID cases remains below 1,000 a second day but today’s total is up from yesterday: 894 new cases statewide today vs. 528 yesterday. Regardless, 894 new cases is still roughly 1/40th of the volume recorded at the omicron peak—35,395 new cases—on Jan. 21. Hospitalizations COVID-related hospitalizations also seemed to […]
COVID update: New cases fall to 528 in today’s NCDHHS report
March 7. New COVID cases have fallen below 1,000 a day for the first time since mid-July. Today the NC Dept. of Health & Human Services reported 528 new cases—a tiny fraction of the number of new cases reported during much of the second half of January. The last time the new case volume was […]
COVID update March 4
March 4. COVID-related hospitalizations continue to fall statewide, dropping to 1,336 today from 1,401 as per the NC Dept. of Health & Human Services. The NCDHHS also reported reported 2,646 new cases, the fourth day NC case volumes have risen. The bottom was 909 new cases on Monday Feb. 28. Testing The statewide positivity rate […]
