An increase in COVID-19 cases is dominating the news in North Carolina and across the country.
While the number of people who test positive is hitting daily records and the number of people who have tested positive since March is posted by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) each day, the number of active cases of COVID-19 in the state is not posted at all on the NCDHHS Dashboard, which is designed to provide information on COVID-19 to the public.
However, every Monday the NCDHHS posts the number of people who have tested positive and are presumed to have recovered. By doing the math, the number of current active cases in the state can be determined. The calculations are done on the PCR test results and do not include the antigen test results.
The number of people, according to the NCDHHS, who have tested positive in the state is 299,061 and the number NCDHHS reports have recovered is 276,132, and the number of deaths attributed by NCDHHS to COVID-19 since March is 4,704, which means the number of people in North Carolina who currently have active cases of COVID-19 is 18,225 in a state with a population of 10.5 million.
This has increased from Oct. 27 when the same mathematical calculations showed that 16,218 people in the state had current active cases of COVID-19.
One reason more people are testing positive is that more people are being tested. For example, on Oct. 27, according to the NCDHHS, 21,588 people were tested and 2,144 tested positive, while on Nov. 14, when 37,267 people were tested, 3,885 tested positive. It is a notable increase in the number of positive test results, but also a notable increase in the number of people tested.
The majority of deaths, 58 percent, remains in the over-75 age group. In the under-18 category there has still only been one death in the entire state during the eight months of the pandemic, and the total number of deaths of those under 25 remains at five. The total number of deaths in the state for those under the age of 50 is 194.
The number of deaths in the over-75 age group is 2,811.
The fatality rates by age do not distinguish between the PCR test and the antigen test, so the assumption is the death totals include the test results of both.
Why are they afraid to tell us the number of people that tested positive are asymptomatic? Maybe because it would show that His Highness’ “scientific approach” is so much BS and is simply a grab for power.
Why do you think anyone is afraid? Sounds like projection to me. The NCDHHS gives you SO MUCH DATA – and you want more because you can’t make it fit with your “scandemic” narrative (mostly because you just suck at numbers among the many other things you suck).
What is the value in knowing how many people are asymptomatic? Asymptomatic does not mean can’t transmit the disease. Asymptomatic does not mean will not become symptomatic. Asymptomatic simply means that the patient isn’t exhibiting symptoms of the disease they have.
You aren’t in medicine, best leave that to our elected official and their teams of professionals that actual work in fields of epidemiology, infectious disease, and public health.
Why aren’t they reporting that 50% of the deaths are still from congregate living? What help is the state providing to the nursing homes?
I am sick of the covid all we here is covid covid we have been in this mess all most a year and I am sick of it all we have been locked down for to long and it’s time for Roy Cooper to back up We the people pay him and he works for us we do not work for him and we the people know what is best for our family’s we don’t the Government telling us what to do or how to live or were we or can’t go YOU NEED TO REMEMBER WE ARE YOUR BOSS OT THE OTHER WAY AROUND AND WE DON’T BELIEVE THE BS COMING OUT OF YOUR MOUTH WE WANT THE TRUTH AND WE DEMAND THE TRUTH GOT IT.
I really hate to point this out real times, but in as much as you are exactly right about who is SUPPOSED to be the boss, the overwhelming majority of “bosses” are in fact sheeple who blindly follow or at least capitulate to our supposed employees who act more like royalty.
There currently is no lockdown in North Carolina.
I suspect you’d like to blatantly disregard stoplights, stop signs, and speed limits as well?
Per Czar Roy, no more then 10 people allowed at indoor gatherings.
As for “There currently is no lockdown in North Carolina.”, key word there is “currently”. I believe the countdown has already started.
Bars are still open…. schools are not. And you wonder why people can’t “do the math”.
When Roy Cooper pays my mortgage, pays my utilities, and feeds my children he can then tell me how many people I can congregate with or whatever. That will never happen, so I am perfectly comfortable telling him to go back to Raleigh with his mask and drama tucked tightly in his rear. We will be holding a memorial service celebrating the life of our pet turkey on Thursday, November 26th. Please bring a dessert.