ASHEVILLE, NC – July 17, 2024 – The CDC’s COVID Dashboard for the week ending on July 6th shows:
- 1-9 of the deaths in North Carolina were due to COVID, the lowest level of 6 groups.
- Emergency department visits for COVID-19 are minimal in North Carolina, less than 1% of all visits. However, there was a moderate increase since last week of 15%.
Wastewater monitoring can be used to provide early warning for COVID outbreaks. The Buncombe & Henderson counties wastewater data on the North Carolina COVID Dashboard for the week ending on July 3rd shows:
- The number of viral gene copies in each water sample is between 60-80%, the 4th highest level of 5 groups.
- The 15-day rate of change of the number of viral gene copies in each water sample has increased from the previous week to between 10% to 99%, the 2nd highest level of 3 groups with a positive rate of change.
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Contact: Dr. Dick Needleman, Health reporter, 103.3 AshevilleFM, healthyasheville@ashevillefm.org