Local COVID-19 Briefing for 02-16-2021

National Briefing

U.S. Vaccine Supply Increasing to 13.5 Million Doses a Week



PRESS RELEASE
WHITE HOUSE

The U.S. vaccine supply is increasing to 13.5 million doses per week, up from 11 million, and the number of shots distributed through pharmacies will double, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday.

President Joe Biden’s Covid-19 response coordinator, Jeff Zients, announced the increases to governors in a conference call earlier, Psaki told reporters at a briefing. Two million doses will be delivered to pharmacies this week, she said, up from 1 million. The pharmacy program began on Feb. 11.

“This program will expand access in neighborhoods across the country,” she said. “Eventually, as supply increases, more than 40,000 pharmacy locations nationwide will be providing Covid-19 vaccines through this program. This is a critical, critical part of our plan.”

The U.S. has administered a total of 54.6 million doses so far, with about 11.9% of the population having received at least a first dose, data show.

Local Briefing

Here are the latest COVID-19 Numbers and Demographics Report from Macon Public Health, along with a couple of charts by Macon Media to show you the long-term trends since April 17th. The health department has started releasing information about vaccine delivery, so those numbers will be included here also, as well as charted.

VACCINE DELIVERY
(The health department received its first shipment on December 30th)

CATEGORY	MON	TUE	WED	THU	FRI	WEEK
Vaccines Given Today	1026	7	0	0	0	1033
Inventory	0	0	0	0	0	0
Vaccines Given (total)	4342	4349	0	0	0	4349

(note--these numbers are on the day reported, not necessarily given since some shots may be given after the daily report is published, Also, there are often more shots in the vials than reported on the manifest, so total shots will not match reported inventory) 

POSITIVE CASES IN THE SCHOOLS THIS WEEK

SCHOOL	MON	TUE	WED	THU	FRI	WEEK
Cartoogechaye	0	0	0	0	0	0
East Franklin	0	0	0	0	0	0
Franklin High	1	0	0	0	0	0
Highlands	0	0	0	0	0	0
Iotla Valley	0	0	0	0	0	1
Macon Early	0	0	0	0	0	0
Macon Middle	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mountain View	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nantahala	0	0	0	0	0	0
South Macon	1	0	0	0	0	1
Union Academy	0	0	0	0	0	0
TOTALS FOR DAY	2	0	0	0	0	2

Cases in Macon County

2900 Detected
(+9 from Thursday and +72 from last Friday and +502 from four weeks ago)

103 Active
-2 from Thursday and -191 last Friday and -509 from four weeks ago)

2772 Recovered
(+11 from Thursday and +262 last Friday and +1001 from four weeks ago)

27 Deaths
(unchanged from Thursday and +1 from last Friday and +10 from four weeks ago)


Testing in Macon County

9084 by MCPH
+11 from Thursday and +146 from last Friday and +841 from four weeks ago)

7749 by Others
(+98 from Thursday and +192 from last Friday and +1352 from four weeks ago)

16833 total
(+109 from Thursday and +338 from last Friday and +373 from four weeks ago)

63 tests pending results
(-11 from Thursday and -57 from last Friday and -4 from four weeks ago)

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Published at 6:30pm on Tuesday, February 16, 2021