Number of active COVID-19 cases in Hyde County slows down
COVID-19 continues to spread in Hyde County and all across North Carolina, however, Health Director Luana Gibbs reported on Wednesday that the number of active cases in the county has slowed down this past week, and a potential outbreak on the mainland has been contained.
“Thanks to the joint efforts of the Hyde County Health Department and a Swan Quarter business owner, what was classified as an ‘outbreak’ in a workplace setting has been resolved,” stated a Hyde County press release. “People who are visiting the NC DHHS COVID-19 Dashboard website may have seen that case counts spiked between July 9 and July 17, which was related to this outbreak. “
“Today, the COVID-19 numbers reflect a total count of 35 cases, of which 32 have recovered, with an active case count of 3. Again, there has been only 1 hospitalization to date, and thankfully no deaths. The one hotspot we have noted was the Swan Quarter workplace outbreak as described above.”
Drive-through mass testing provided by MakoMedical Laboratories, Inc., (in partnership with the Hyde County Health Department), was conducted at the Mattamuskeet Campus on Wednesday, July 17. Per the county, the event was a success, with 20 participants receiving their test results so far.
Additional events are currently being planned, which includes a testing event on Ocracoke Island, and more testing events on the mainland. Stay tuned for testing dates and locations, which the Island Free Press will post as soon as they become available.
The Hyde County Health Department continues to remain available to the public to answer questions and provide education on COVID-19, and businesses are encouraged to call if they have questions or concerns about how to keep their employees and patrons safe. The Hyde County Health Dept. can be reached at 252-926-4399, Monday through Friday, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
I keep hearing how contagious this new coronavirus is and how our hospitals could be overwhelmed. The CDC says that there are just shy of 4 million cases since March.
My question is why we haven’t been shutting everything down every year for the common versions of the flu? The CDC says that between Oct. 2019 and March 2020 there were up to 56 million cases of the flu and a chart says that there were 62,000 deaths. So, doing some math, that means that there were 52 million more cases of the common flu than this virus.
How is the new virus more contagious when there are 52 million MORE cases of flu?
Why were our hospitals NOT overwhelmed with flu cases?
Can someone explain this?
This thing about how the flu is worse has been around since the beginning. And it is based on misinformation / misinterpretation by people who don’t “get” statistics and data collection, nor epidemiology/infectious disease. And it has been debunked in all sorts of ways.
So since I’ve seen you’re posts before, I’m guessing that you are mostly making a statement and not actually asking the question out of a serious desire to know.
If you have a serious desire to know, then the answers are at your finger tips with internet searches. But I find it likely that you will dismiss whatever you find that doesn’t match up with your preconceived notions as “FAKE NEWS!”
Test, test, test and more test. The Democrats and Republicans who both hate President Trump will do everything in their power to stop Trump from being reelected in November.
The notion that this virus and people’s concerns about it are about Trump defy any form of rational thought. Sure…the entire planet and all of it’s experts in infectious disease and epidemiology, and every government on the planet have all conspired with each other – on a planetary scale – just to bring down Trump. Oy. Get a F’ing grip.
Trump is the most incompetent and disastrous public official ever. I grew up near NYC. He’s always been well known in the whole NYC area as nothing but a 2-bit con-man. Some things never change. You are the mark. Stop it.