Gov. Roy Cooper began the press conference on Monday, Nov. 23 with a statement that is misleading.
Cooper talks constantly about making decisions based on science, facts and data, but the facts he reported are inaccurate.
Talking about COVID-19, Cooper said, “As of today we have 339,194 cases.”
That is not even close to current number of COVID-19 cases in the state according to the numbers reported by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) on Monday.
What is true is that since March in North Carolina 339,194 people have tested positive for COVID-19. According to the NCDHHS, of those 339,194 positive test results, 293,555 are presumed to have recovered plus another 5,039 people have died, which means according to the data and facts supplied by the NCDHHS, about 40,600 people in the state have active cases of COVID-19.
Even if the NCDHHS is not entirely accurate in its estimate of the number of people who have recovered, the total number of people in the state that have active cases of COVID-19 is not anywhere close to 339,194. That number includes everyone who tested positive in March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October and November.
It is also worth noting that his was not said in answer to a question where Cooper may have misspoken, but was in his prepared remarks.
One reason given for the new tighter restrictions that Cooper announced was that the hospitalizations have increased at an alarming rate, but what Director of NCDHHS Mandy Cohen mentioned in her remarks was that on Nov. 13, NCDHHS started listing the hospitalizations numbers based on different criteria, which caused the hospitalization rate to take a big jump.
Cohen said that the hospitalization number would be increasing anyway, but why not show the public the numbers using the same metric the NCDHHS has been using, so that people can make their own judgment?
For those who go to the NCDHHS Dashboard for information, the chart on hospitalizations is misleading because it has no notation that the big jump on Nov. 13 was caused, not by an increase in hospitalizations, but because NCDHHS started using different criteria.
Coopered again! He will have us all locked down and Coopered up again soon. I think he will find more resistance from John Q. Public this time around! Local merchants I have talked to are fed up with the bull.
He won’t face more resistance. Merchants will fail to adequately organize again, and they’ll be picked off by Cooper’s law enforcement Gestapo just like last time. Filing suit in federal court is the way to go, yet only one group did that all of 2020 and they were successful.
HOW DARE YOU QUESTION THE WISDOM AND ACCURACY OF HIS OMNIPOTENCE THE ALL KNOWING COOPER!
Sorry…I took a drink from mt sister’s cup.
So with 40,600 active cases in NC and population of 10.5 million, that means that 0.39% of the population have COVID and 99.61% do NOT have COVID. We need to stop the fear mongering. And government needs to let those who are healthy live their lives while protecting the vulnerable. King Cooper needs to stop picking winners and losers.
Roy’s like some other notable politicians,
tell a lie often & proclaim it to the roof tops.
It must be the TRUTH, IF IT WASN’T THE NEWS &TV WOULD HAVE TOLD US. Dummy me I forgot what political stripe the are.
I am one of the people who tested positive. I was sick for 3 days and self quarantined for 17 days. I have no problems what so ever. The flu I had over 5 years ago was worse than COVID-19 I had in March. What they should be saying but they aren’t is that the 339,000 or so people have the antibodies and will contribute to heard immunity in the future. But our governor wants to sell fear and not hope. If we continue to listen to these people they will be telling us what to do, when you can do it and where you can go. We The People have constitutional rights that are being violated. Roy Cooper is not a dictator he is a governor and should not be given this much power. Nothing is being based on science or facts. You have heard the old saying haven’t you, “ figures don’t lie but liars do figure. I’m sure we are getting ready for a complete shut down of the state. All because COVID-19 could effect fatally less than 1% of the state’s population. The flu keels that amount almost every year. Are we next going to shut down our economy for the fu???? Don’t bet against it.
Mask do not work unless you have an N95. I am sick of the fake news. Stand up people we must get our president back in office. Pray allyou can for God to step in and over them this election.may B d bless our country.
Every one I have spoken to that got covid always wore a mask. There was ONLY ONE out of over 1,000 people that said they weren’t wearing one. There is literally NO proof that masks work! Quite the opposite!
It has been constantly proven over the months that the numbers ARE NOT THERE, to warrant ANY of this. Lock down, social distancing, masks.
If you look at hospitalization loads right now, its under 50% beds being used. How is that overwhelming our hospitals???
People need to wake up and realize they have been lied to for the last 9 months!!!
If they can declare a level 6 pandemic the UN and WHO have our government’s blessing to takeover US quarantine and governance. This virus is not a new never seen before virus and UN threats to the life and health of our diverse society based on values of democracy, through UN international laws and US agreements are not new either; they just grew stronger as time passed and US diversity still stood in their way toward global harmonization.