COVID-19 Briefing for 03-02-2021

National and State Briefing

• North Carolina Coronavirus Taskforce Briefing for 03-02-2021 Frontline Essential Workers Eligible for Vaccination Beginning March 3rd [LINK]

Local Briefing

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	610	0	x	x	x	610
Inventory	0	500	x	x	x	500
Vaccines Given (total)	6699	6699	x	x	x	6699

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

Cases in Macon County

2988 Detected
(+4 from Monday and +45 from last Tuesday and +251 from four weeks ago)

46 Active
(-4 from Monday and -9 last Tuesday and -479 from four weeks ago)

2912 Recovered
(+8 from Monday and +52 last Tuesday and +719 from four weeks ago)

30 Deaths
(unchanged from Monday and (unchanged from last Tuesday and +11 from four weeks ago)


Testing in Macon County

9238 by MCPH
(+12 from Monday and +60 from last Tuesday and +425 from four weeks ago)

8461 by Others
(+61 from Monday and +170 from last Tuesday and +1269 from four weeks ago)

17699 total
(+73 from Monday and +230 from last Tuesday and +1694 from four weeks ago)

47 tests pending results
(+12from Monday and -41 from last Tuesday and -198 from four weeks ago)

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Published at 6:15pm on Tuesday, March 02, 2021