As everyone knows, State of North Carolina health officials want everyone in the state eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccination to hurry up and get one.
In an attempt to make that case yet again, on Tuesday, Oct. 19, state officials put out a press release announcing the positive effect of vaccinations at long-term care facilities in the state.
The new data showed that, with more than 80 percent of residents fully vaccinated, cases, hospitalizations and deaths in long-term care facilities were down a great deal during the Delta-variant surge compared to the previous winter surge.
“As COVID-19 cases surged this summer fueled by the Delta variant,” the release reads, “hospitalizations and deaths among residents in North Carolina long-term care facilities were significantly lower than during the winter surge, as shown in data from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS). The decrease in cases and severe illness can be attributed to vaccination for residents and staff of long-term care facilities and to the work done by long-term care providers to implement measures to protect staff and residents from COVID-19.”
According to the data presented by the state, while COVID-19 outbreaks in long-term care facilities increased during July through September of this year, average weekly cases in those facilities decreased by 89 percent, hospitalizations decreased by 93 percent and deaths decreased by 95 percent when compared to November and December of 2020 – a time at which most long-term care residents had yet to be vaccinated.
Last week, the state’s long-term care facilities hit an 80 percent average for being fully vaccinated
State officials note that, with four out of five people in these facilities vaccinated, outbreaks are smaller in size and bring fewer deaths when compared to any other time during the pandemic.
The state releases summary case counts for long-term care facilities in its weekly “Outbreaks and Clusters Report.”
NCDHHS Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen used the news to once again encourage everyone to get the shot.
“This data from our long-term care facilities is more evidence that vaccines save lives,” Cohen stated this week. “Don’t wait until it’s too late. Get vaccinated to protect against COVID-19 and help your friends and loved ones to do the same.”
Loyalty to country forever! Loyalty to government only when they earn it.
They haven’t! Resist! Freedom of choice is what it is all about. Biden isn’t the King and cannot mandate squat! Bovine fecal matter.
I don’t believe them. The same amount of elderly are dying as always. Otherwise this is some miracle cure mankind should have been privy to years ago. I think no matter what around 167,000 people die every day worldwide, or at least those were the figures a coupla years ago when I checked.
They haven’t always died of covid. And in case you missed the news earlier this year…the WAS a spike in deaths in nursing homes as a result of the pandemic. These are facts. Not something you ‘believe’. Raw numbers.
So sad that people are so distrustful they don’t even want to ‘believe’ in good news about the covid pandemic. And even when reported in a conservative news source such as the Rhino Times. Pathetic.
There is a reason we’re distrustful. Not that long ago, we were the ones who trusted in government to look out for our best interests (a lot of us anyways) but over the past couple of decades, we have watched our government grow into a corrupt, self serving beast that needs to be slayed. Only during the past year and a half, have they taken the gloves off, and become so bold they don’t even need to hide what they’re doing anymore.
We have a Department of Justice who is interested in anything but justice. All last year, they sat idly by, watching Antifa and BLM, assault people and destroy entire city blocks, and then turn right around and call parents, who stand up at school board meetings and speak out about what their children are being taught in schools, domestic terrorists.
We have watched formerly anti-establishment/anti-government types, such as Hollywood actors and musicians all of a sudden do an about-face, and turn into pro-government shills. Bands such as “Rage Against the Machine” fail to see the irony in the fact that now they are “raging for the machine”, going along with mandates that remove people’s choice to decide what’s best for them.
…and no, we have lost ALL faith in media, as they have become nothing but a propaganda arm for the left, all too happy to push this pro-socialist, pro-one world government agenda. Just about every morning show, news show, and opinion show on TV is “brought to you by Pfizer” now. So, yes, many of us fail to accept anything printed by any media outlet as fact, without doing our own research – even what’s put out by the Rhino.
The right has an amazing propaganda machine in FoxNew, OAN etc…. New is biased for sure and dishonest a good deal. But don’t limit that criticism to just the Left. The Big Lie of voter fraud, the lie about vaccines safety amd effectiveness, the big lie about Jan 6th just being a bunch of tourists…..
Like i said. Sad.
So says the used to be Republican but now an “ independent “ liberal
What chris no race card here
We don’t need the news-just believe Chris.