Garner COVID-19 Data Update
April 10, 2022
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Cases
Hospitalizations
April 10, 2022
January 30, 2022
Currently hospitalized reflect the number of people with COVID-19 that are currently hospitalized in reporting hospitals. The number of hospitalizations helps us understand how many people were hospitalized with COVID-19, and how close hospital beds are to their staffed or licensed capacity. Limitation: People stay in the hospital multiple days with COVID-19, and so this reflects the number of people reported by hospitals. All data are preliminary and may change as data are investigated.
COVID-19 Virus in Waste Water - Raleigh
March 27, 2022
To better understand COVID-19 in North Carolina, NCDHHS is testing samples of wastewater from select wastewater treatment plants across the state to look for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. People with COVID-19 shed viral particles in their stool. These viral particles are pieces of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19 when still intact. In wastewater, the particles are no longer infectious but can still be measured. Testing wastewater for these viral particles allows us to track COVID-19 trends among people contributing to the wastewater. Data from these sites serve as a supplemental metric to understand the impacts of COVID-19 at the community level.
This project is a collaboration between the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, University of North Carolina system researchers, wastewater utilities, and public health departments.
