COVID update: NC hospitalizations down 11.68% in one week

Last Updated: February 4, 2022By NewsroomTags: coronavirus, covid-19

Feb.4. The NC Dept. of Health & Human Services said today that COVID-related hospitalizations have fallen to 4,490 in today’s coronavirus update, down 11.68 percent from a week ago today.

Deaths

The NCDHHS reported 70 new COVID-related deaths statewide.

New cases

There were 14,966 new cases statewide in today’s report.

On this date one year ago

2,630 hospitalized statewide; 150 new deaths

Positivity rate

The statewide COVID positivity rate is 21 percent.

—In Mecklenburg, the 14-day trailing average was 28.4 percent.

Mecklenburg

There were 1,034 new COVID cases countywide.

North Mecklenburg (change from Thursday)

• Cornelius: 30 new cases, 6,376 cumulative total, 33 deaths cumulative total.

• Davidson: 25 new cases, 3,862 cumulative total, 20 deaths cumulative total.

• Huntersville: 65 new cases, 14,514 cumulative total, 85 deaths cumulative total.

The NCDHHS does not provide detailed data on deaths

No Comments

Jay Shray February 4, 2022 at 2:27 pm - Reply

Thank you for your consistent reporting on COVID in our area. Can you please confirm where you are getting the reported COVID death’s number from?

On the NCDHHS.GOV website that you link to, they list the deaths by day and they do not align with what is being reported. Would like to make sure I am looking in the right place.See here: https://covid19.ncdhhs.gov/dashboard/data-behind-dashboards

Thank you for helping us all stay informed.
J
- Newsroom February 4, 2022 at 3:12 pm - Reply
  
  We pull our info 5 days a week from here: https://covid19.ncdhhs.gov/
  
  And here: https://covid19.ncdhhs.gov/dashboard
  
  We do the math on the daily changes.
  
  Here’s a local CBS station with the same data: https://www.cbs17.com/community/health/coronavirus/covid-19-in-nc-state-hits-21000th-death-biggest-drop-in-hospitalizations-in-more-than-1-year/
  
  And a local ABC affiliate: https://wcti12.com/news/local/nearly-15000-new-covid-19-cases-in-nc-more-than-120-additional-deaths
  
  We dig in for data by Zip Code near the bottom of the Dashboard.
  
  There seems to be information all over the place and some of it *seems to conflict. We do the exact same NCDHHS data pull every day, and then compare.