COVID-19 Briefing for 02-23-2021

National Briefing

• Real-time analysis of a mass vaccination effort via an Artificial Intelligence platform confirms the safety of FDA-authorized COVID-19 vaccines (Preprint Research Paper) [LINK]

U.S. Will Have Enough Vaccine for 130 Million by End of March [LINK] 

U.S. administers 65 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines - CDC [LINK] 

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

CATEGORY	MON	TUE	WED	THU	FRI	WEEK
Vaccines Given Today	4	368	x	x	x	x
Inventory	800	446	x	x	x	x
Vaccines Given (total)	4378	4748	x	x	x	x

(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	x	x	x	0
East Franklin	0	0	x	x	x	0
Franklin High	4	1	x	x	x	5
Highlands	1	0	x	x	x	1
Iotla Valley	0	0	x	x	x	0
Macon Early	0	0	x	x	x	0
Macon Middle	1	0	x	x	x	1
Mountain View	0	0	x	x	x	0
Nantahala	0	0	x	x	x	0
South Macon	1	0	x	x	x	1
Union Academy	1	0	x	x	x	1
TOTALS FOR DAY	8	1	x	x	x	9

Cases in Macon County

2945 Detected
(+2 from Friday and +45 from last Monday and +368 from four weeks ago)

55 Active
-3 from Friday and -46 last Monday and -464 from four weeks ago)

2860 Recovered
(+5 from Friday and +88 last Monday and +820 from four weeks ago)

30 Deaths
(unchanged from Friday and +3 from last Monday and +12 from four weeks ago)


Testing in Macon County

9178 by MCPH
+39 from Friday and +94 from last Monday and +608 from four weeks ago)

8291 by Others
(+74 from Friday and +542 from last Monday and +1399 from four weeks ago)

17469 total
(+113 from Friday and +636 from last Monday and +2007 from four weeks ago)

88 tests pending results
(+39 from Friday and +25 from last Monday and -198 from four weeks ago)

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Published at 11:59pm on Tuesday, February 23, 2021