Transylvania Public Health is reporting 111 additional cases of COVID-19 and 1 additional death, for a total of 7,634 cases and 80 deaths among county residents (42 cases tested positive In July and August but were not reported by the provider until this week). Currently, 43 county residents are in isolation for COVID-19. Outbreaks in group living facilities include 18 cases at Accordius Health, 30 cases at The Oaks, 30 cases at Cedar Mountain House, and 4 cases at Kingsbridge House.
New cases in the county decreased 22% in the past 7 days compared to the previous 7 days. Community transmission remains high throughout NC and most of the US. As of September 15, Transylvania was in the medium (yellow) category for the CDC’s COVID-19 Community Levels, based on 354.81 new cases in the past 7 days per 100,000 population, 2.8 new COVID-19 hospital admissions per 100,000 population, and 4.6% of staffed inpatient beds in the region in use by patients with confirmed COVID-19.
In the medium category, the CDC recommends that people who are at high risk for severe illness should consider wearing a mask indoors in public and taking additional precautions. Everyone should wear a mask if you have symptoms, a positive test, or exposure to COVID-19, or any time as an additional precaution.
As of September 21, the NCDHHS COVID-19 Dashboard shows mixed indicators. The wastewater monitoring metric increased to 16.9 million virus particles per person in the past week. Emergency department visits for COVID-like symptoms were 5.1% of all ED visits. New cases of COVID-19 and hospital admissions for COVID-19 decreased slightly. The COVID-19 variants detected by laboratory sequencing for the 2 weeks ending September 10 were 78% Omicron BA.5, 15% BA.4.6, 5% BA.4, 1% BA.2.75, 1% BF.7, and less than 1% BA.2.12.1 and BA.2. Based on the CDC’s Community Levels, 36 counties in NC are low (green), 38 counties are medium (yellow), and 26 counties are high (orange). More information is available at https://covid19.ncdhhs.gov/dashboard.
For more information, visit http://transylvaniahealth.org/covid-19/. This data does NOT include people who test positive for COVID-19 using at-home tests.
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