Buncombe County s COVID-19 metrics keep improving and vaccination efforts keep gaining steam, but officials worry that good news will lull residents into relaxing safety measures.
Updating the county Board of Commissioners March 16, Public Health Director Stacie Saunders laid out the latest good news, but stressed that the stats only improve if folks keep up with the 3Ws and limiting interactions.
Vaccine efforts are already having a positive impact in the community, she said, and other key indicators are either improving or staying steady. Seeing our trends come back into a more favorable area is welcomed, but it does worry me just a little that folks will see all this green and become complacent, Saunders said, referring to the metric dashboard that rates those numbers by color.