COVID-19 Briefing for 03-08-2021

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.

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

CATEGORY	MON	TUE	WED	THU	FRI	WEEK
Vaccines Given Today	400	x	x	x	x	400
Inventory	800	x	x	x	x	800
Vaccines Given (total)	7754	x	x	x	x	7754

(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

(One case was reported on Monday in the Support Staff. That number is not reflected in the chart)

SCHOOL	MON	TUE	WED	THU	FRI	WEEK
Cartoogechaye	0	x	x	x	x	0
East Franklin	0	x	x	x	x	0
Franklin High	0	x	x	x	x	0
Highlands	0	x	x	x	x	0
Iotla Valley	0	x	x	x	x	0
Macon Early	0	x	x	x	x	0
Macon Middle	0	x	x	x	x	0
Mountain View	0	x	x	x	x	0
Nantahala	0	x	x	x	x	0
South Macon	0	x	x	x	x	0
Union Academy	0	x	x	x	x	0
TOTALS FOR DAY	0	x	x	x	x	0

Cases in Macon County

3008 Detected
(+8 from Thursday and +24 from last Friday and +194 from four weeks ago)

35 Active
(+3 from Thursday and -15 last Friday and -445 from four weeks ago)

2943 Recovered
(+5 from Thursday and +39 last Friday and +633 from four weeks ago)

30 Deaths
(unchanged from Thursday and (unchanged from last Friday and +6 from four weeks ago)


Testing in Macon County

9271 by MCPH
(+3 from Thursday and +45 from last Friday and +333 from four weeks ago)

8521 by Others
(+12 from Thursday and +121 from last Friday and +1140 from four weeks ago)

17792 total
(+15 from Thursday and +166 from last Friday and +1473 from four weeks ago)

20 tests pending results
(-14 from Thursday and -15 from last Friday and -68 from four weeks ago)

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Published at 7:41pm on Monday, March 08, 2021