COVID-19 Briefing for 02-24-2021

National and State Briefing

• Governor Cooper to Ease Pandemic Restrictions After Period of Improving Metrics [LINK]

Nearly 600,000 people in a large Israeli health care organization were followed after vaccination for infection, hospitalization, and severe COVID19. Estimated vaccine effectiveness in preventing death was 72% after the first dose, and hospitalization was reduced by 92%. [LINK] 

NIH launches new initiative to study "Long COVID"  [LINK] 

The Johnson and Johnson Vaccine at the FDA  [LINK] 

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Local Briefing

Macon County Public Health has been notified by NCDHHS that the county will be receiving 500 first doses per week for the next three weeks and has been approved for a "Special Event Allotment" of 1,170 doses which the health department will deliver between Feb 22nd and Feb 26th. To register to receive the vaccine and to be contacted when appointments for your group are available, please call 828-524-1500. The vaccine call center is open from 8:00am – 5:00pm Monday through Monday, until further notice. 

 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	4	368	439	x	x	811
Inventory	800	446	780	x	x	780
Vaccines Given (total)	4378	4748	5185	x	x	5185

(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	4	1	1	x	x	6
Highlands	1	0	0	x	x	1
Iotla Valley	0	0	0	x	x	0
Macon Early	0	0	0	x	x	0
Macon Middle	1	0	0	x	x	1
Mountain View	0	0	0	x	x	0
Nantahala	0	0	0	x	x	0
South Macon	1	0	0	x	x	1
Union Academy	1	0	0	x	x	1
TOTALS FOR DAY	8	1	1	x	x	10

Cases in Macon County

2950 Detected
(+5 from Tuesday and +43 from last Wednesday and +337 from four weeks ago)

55 Active
unchanged from Tuesday and +64 last Wednesday and -472 from four weeks ago)

2865 Recovered
(+5 from Tuesday and +64 last Wednesday and +797 from four weeks ago)

30 Deaths
(unchanged from Tuesday and +3 from last Wednesday and +12 from four weeks ago)


Testing in Macon County

9192 by MCPH
+14 from Tuesday and +93 from last Wednesday and +599 from four weeks ago)

8314 by Others
(+23 from Tuesday and +532 from last Wednesday and +1371 from four weeks ago)

17506 total
(+37 from Tuesday and +625 from last Wednesday and +1970 from four weeks ago)

85 tests pending results
(-3 from Tuesday and +7 from last Wednesday and -153 from four weeks ago)

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Published at 11:59pm on Wednesday, February 24, 2021