WADESBORO Anson County moved down from a “critical” COVID spread designation by the state to a less significant category as cases continue to drop.
Every two weeks the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services publishes a county alert system which categorizes each county into three different tiers depending on the number of COVID-19 cases: yellow means significant community spread, orange is substantial and red is critical community spread.
The county alert system combines the case rate, percent of test that are positive and the hospital impact within the county to determine what group a county falls in over a 14-day period.
WADESBORO The Anson County Health Department continued with accepting vaccination appointments after catching up on a backlog of residents waiting for the Moderna shot.
On Jan. 28, the health department announced a temporary hold on residents scheduling appointments to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. There was about 1,200 residents on a wait-list, but the health department was only receiving 100 first doses of the shot.
Atrium Health Anson aided the health department on catching up with appointments. The hospital transferred 300 first doses to the health department last week and an additional 300 this week, according to Health Director Fred Thompson.
The assistance from Atrium Health allowed the health department to start accepting new registration forms for those in Groups 1 and 2.
WADESBORO Following a week that saw a decline in new cases, the Anson County Health Department still announced three new COVID-related deaths in the county over the weekend of Feb. 12.
Anson County has slowly seen a decline in cases after the holiday surge. On Feb. 1 the health department announced 156 total active cases. One week later, the active cases dropped to 111. As of Feb. 15, the active cases are down to 79, about a 48% decrease in active cases since the start of Feb.
In comparison, the first few weeks of Jan. saw an increase in active cases. The total active cases on Jan. 4 were at 195. In one week it jumped to 276 active cases before dropping again to 247 on Jan. 18.
âIt gives me a sense of freedom.â Anson Co. man gets vaccine as dept. stops accepting new appointments
Man snags one of last vaccine appointments available in Anson County By Caroline Hicks | January 29, 2021 at 5:49 PM EST - Updated January 29 at 8:26 PM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Friday health department directors across the state are making plans for the next week of covid-19 vaccinations.
Several rural counties received zero new doses this week, and are looking forward to increases next week.
In Anson County, the health department is expecting just 100 first doses next week.
Because of that, they are having to stop taking new appointments.
NCDHHS provides 3-week baseline of vaccine doses for health systems to expect
NC reveals new plan for allocating vaccine doses By Caroline Hicks | January 28, 2021 at 6:59 PM EST - Updated January 28 at 6:59 PM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Health systems across North Carolina are learning how many doses to expect over the next three weeks.
It’s part of the plan announced by NCDHHS to help give vaccinators the tools to adequately enroll patients for vaccine appointments.
According to the preliminary data, Novant Health gets a baseline of 6825 doses starting next week. That’s a bump up from 5075 doses this week.