Local COVID-19 Briefing For 02-17-2021

National Briefing

• President Biden Announces New Actions to Expand and Improve COVID-19 Testing [LINK]



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	x	x	1033
Inventory	0	0	0	x	x	0
Vaccines Given (total)	4342	4349	4356	x	x	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	x	x	0
East Franklin	0	0	0	x	x	0
Franklin High	1	0	0	x	x	0
Highlands	0	0	0	x	x	0
Iotla Valley	0	0	0	x	x	1
Macon Early	0	0	0	x	x	0
Macon Middle	0	0	0	x	x	0
Mountain View	0	0	1	x	x	1
Nantahala	0	0	0	x	x	0
South Macon	1	0	0	x	x	1
Union Academy	0	0	0	x	x	0
TOTALS FOR DAY	2	0	1	x	x	3

Cases in Macon County

2907 Detected
(+7 from Thursday and +58 from last Friday and +483 from four weeks ago)

79 Active
-22 from Thursday and -40 last Friday and -5109 from four weeks ago)

2801 Recovered
(+29 from Thursday and +97 last Friday and +983 from four weeks ago)

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


Testing in Macon County

9099 by MCPH
+15 from Thursday and +86 from last Friday and +856 from four weeks ago)

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

16881 total
(+48 from Thursday and +311 from last Friday and +2085 from four weeks ago)

78 tests pending results
(+15 from Thursday and -61 from last Friday and +27 from four weeks ago)

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Published at 6:51pm on Wednesday, February 17, 2021