COVID-19 Briefing for 03-04-2021

National and State Briefing

COVID-19 Questions and Answers with Vincent and Amy 

(03-03-2021)



Coronavirus Update 124: California and New York Variants 

(03-01-2021)



• 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	13	218	x	841
Inventory	0	500	1700	1500	x	1500
Vaccines Given (total)	6699	6699	6712	6930	x	6930

(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	x	0
East Franklin	0	0	0	0	x	0
Franklin High	0	1	0	0	x	1
Highlands	0	0	0	0	x	0
Iotla Valley	0	0	1	0	x	1
Macon Early	0	0	0	0	x	0
Macon Middle	0	0	0	0	x	0
Mountain View	0	0	0	0	x	0
Nantahala	0	0	0	0	x	0
South Macon	0	0	0	0	x	0
Union Academy	0	0	0	0	x	0
TOTALS FOR DAY	0	1	1	0	x	2

Cases in Macon County

2996 Detected
(+1 from Wednesday and +27 from last Thursday and +228 from four weeks ago)

35 Active
(-8 from Wednesday and -33 last Thursday and -467 from four weeks ago)

2931 Recovered
(+9 from Wednesday and +60 last Thursday and +684 from four weeks ago)

30 Deaths
(unchanged from Wednesday and (unchanged from last Thursday and +11 from four weeks ago)


Testing in Macon County

9262 by MCPH
(+8 from Wednesday and +56 from last Thursday and +391 from four weeks ago)

8481 by Others
(+21 from Wednesday and +149 from last Thursday and +1206 from four weeks ago)

17743 total
(+23 from Wednesday and +205 from last Thursday and +1597 from four weeks ago)

49 tests pending results
(-12from Wednesday and -24 from last Thursday and -38 from four weeks ago)

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Published at 7:20pm on Thursday, March 04, 2021