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From YouTube: Actualización del condado de Buncombe (Feb. 1, 2022)
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Actualización del condado de Buncombe el 1 de febrero de 2022 sobre COVID-19 For the English version of this program, go to facebook.com/buncombeGov
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With
this
recent
increase.
Pan
com
county
has
now
reached
a
total
of
46
thousand
cob
cases
and
19
identified
since
march
2020.
You
can
see
our
epidemiological
curve
here,
showing
our
history
of
cobi
19
in
peaks
and
dips.
It
is
clear
that
the
omicron
rise
has
been
quite
rapid
in
its
rise
and
intense
in
the
number
of
cases.
However,
I
want
to
share
some
good
news.
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I
looked
at
the
numbers
today
and
he's
still
traveling,
and
this
is
good
news
and,
as
there's
quite
a
bit
of
contagion
and
clearly
we're
a
community
with
a
high
transmission
rate,
cases
are
going
down
rapidly,
plus
the
percent
positivity
has
gone
down
for
the
first
time
time
since
mid-December
and
for
the
last
week,
or
so
we
have
been
experiencing
a
positivity
rate.
Well
above
25
percent.
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This
week
we
found
a
positivity
rate
of
around
24
percent,
although
the
case
rate
and
the
case
rate
positivity,
show
signs
of
declining
and
hospitalizations
and
deaths
have
not
yet
shown.
They
were
the
same
decline.
This
is
not
entirely
surprising,
as
I
have
often
been
told
that
our
hospitalizations
and
deaths
are
lagging
indicators,
which
means
they
lag
relative
to
the
number
of
cases
here.
First,
let's
look
at
our
indicator
of
the
regional
pies
and
we
can
see
a
high
rate
of
hospitalization
as
well
as
the
use
of
the
ER
for
the
measurement
system.
A
Recently
we
have
seen
a
high
stabilization
of
inpatient
beds
with
kobe
19.
In
the
last
few
days
there
have
been
between
181
and
188
hospitalized
patients
hospitalized
at
mission
health
throughout
the
system
and
as
a
reminder
throughout
the
state,
a
large
percentage
of
hospitalizations
over
70%
are
from
people
who
have
not
been
vaccinated
and
only
5%
are
from
people
who
have
they
are
vaccinated,
in
addition,
13
new
deaths
have
been
reported,
and
this
increases
our
mortality
rate
to
4.2
deaths
per
100,000
people
to
5
deaths
per
100,000
people.
A
In
this
past
week,
we
have
now
already
lost
488
neighbors
to
kobe
19
related
deaths,
as
cases
continue
to
decline,
as
we
expect
hospitalizations
and
deaths
are
likely
to
begin
as
well
to
decrease
in
the
next
days
or
weeks.
What
I
have
now,
for
you
are
the
metrics
that
we
have
been
observing
since
October
2020
and
to
summarize
the
use
of
the
metrics.
Although
the
cases
and
the
percentage
of
positivity
are
still
high,
it
was
beginning
to
be
observed.
Signs
of
decline,
which
is
encouraging,
hospitalizations
and
deaths,
are
seeing
increases.
A
A
Over
the
course
of
the
last
few
weeks,
public
health
and
emergency
management
has
been
working
to
allocate
home
testing
kits
to
the
community.
The
purpose
of
this
initiative
is
to
create
a
temporary
bridge
for
the
community
to
access
home
testing.
While
we
are
experiencing
high
demand
for
testing
and
to
increase
testing
opportunities
throughout
the
county
created
a
similar
distribution
pathway
that
provides.
A
A
dedicated
equity
initiative
program
and
another
for
the
general
population
initiative,
equity
focus
pathway,
identifies
the
serving
community
organization
to
populations
in
one
or
more
of
the
three
equity
domains
in
low-
income
and
rural,
historically
underserved
communities.
Then
each
community
organization
receives
an
allocation
based
on
the
population,
served
including
high
risk
exposure,
etc.
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then
community
organizations
receive
an
allocation
and
distribution
to
clients
or
for
events
that
They
support
either
their
populations
through
events,
they
support,
such
as
food,
markets,,
community
centers,,
the
homeless
and
other
mechanisms,,
and
as
a
result,
34
organizations
were
assigned
the
number
of
5,200
test
kits
and
15,000
masks.
These
centers
include
rural
community
centers,
providers
of
homeless
services,
churches,
health
workers
and
latino
outreach.
We
also
focused
on
providing
the
opportunity
to
access
the
home
testing
resource
in
general.
This
involved
identifying
partners
who
could
function
as
fixed
locations
for
distribution
to
better
serve
the
general
public.
A
We
identified
the
fire
departments,
libraries
and
the
health
department.
Using
this
approach
also
allowed
us
to
have
a
geographic
spread
across
the
county
from
north
to
south
east
west
and
downtown.
We
ended
up
having
18
locations,
total
14
fire
departments,
3
libraries
and
a
department,
ment
of
health,
fixed
locations
have
distributed
over
6,615
tests
and
12,000
masks,
and
I
want
to
take
a
moment
to
personally
thank
all
of
the
communities.
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All
of
the
community
organizations,
fire
departments,
libraries
and
40
cox,
staff
for
their
participation,
assistance
and
support
to
to
bring
this
resource
out
into
the
community
and
to
highlight
a
lot
of
this
work.
In
particular,
brow
driver
and
the
fire
department
actually
used
some
of
their
tests
at
home
for
people
confined
in
the
community
and
delivered
it
to
people's
doors
and
the
axxion
fire
department
partnered
with
the
health
center,
and
I
am
happy
to
provide
distributions
at
the
center
location
and
congratulate
community
access.
As.
A
By
implementing
the
x
testing
initiative.
We
have
also
been
working
to
increase
community
testing
capacity
and
opportunity,
especially
when
the
demand
has
been
so
high.
Our
community
has
added
added
testing
provider,
opted
a
resource
from
the
north
carolina
department
of
health
services
to
list
of
testing
providers
obtained,
began
testing
services
at
the
youth
campus
at
the
university
of
north
carolina
on
january
21
and
is
testing
fridays
from
1-8
p.m.
and
on
saturdays
and
sundays,
from
9
to
5.
We
anticipate
optimal
will
be
in
our
community
until
at
least
february
20.
A
The
existing
north
carolina
department
of
health
testing
provider
start
med
are
also
expanding
their
presence
in
the
near
future.
They
are
currently
providing
services
at
the
hyères
convention
center,
but
plans
to
migrate
services
to
bomba
in
the
coming
weeks.
Once
this
migration
is
completed,
oim
et
will
continue
to
provide
service
in
xerez
for
larger
events.
Also
carmen
will
add
an
additional
day
at
the
vittek
location
in
the
coming
weeks
and
if,
in
the
weeks
to
follow,
we
continue
to
have
a
multitude
of
providers
listed
on
the
fight.
A
My
testing
website
and
there
are
also
a
growing
number
of
opportunities
to
test
at
home,
including
the
recently
launched
federal
program
where
each
household
can
receive
up
to
four
tests
in
the
mail
people
can
visit
the
website.
Kobe
,
test,
kobe
test,
g
spot
or
vee.
Again,
it's
a
very
simple
process
just
enter
your
name
and
address.
No
other
information
is
needed,
a
reminder
that
people
who
live
in
multi
unit
housing
like
apartments,
should
always
include
their
unit
number
of
apartment.
A
When
making
these
requests,
it
is
really
important
that
you
also
I
would
like
to
say
that
to
people
and
community
organizations
who
may
not
have
access
to
the
internet
or
may
not
find
it
easy
to
use
the
internet.
Please
think
about
how
you
can
support
members
of
your
community
to
find
out
how
to
do
that.
There
is
also
a
phone
number
that
you
can
access
and
also
people
can
receive
the
collection
of
tests
at
home,.
A
A
A
We
wanted
to
spend
talking
about
vaccinations.
We
saw
a
slowdown
in
uptake
with
the
holidays
and
vacations
from
In
winter.
At
school,,
72%
of
the
population
has
received
at
least
one
dose
and
69%
have
received
their
complete
primary
series..
I
want
to
remind
you
that
we
have
almost
reached
that
70%,,
which
was
our
goal
that
we
had
talked
about
many
months
ago
with
Regarding
the
administration
of
vaccines,.
More
than
94,000
people
have
received
their
third
dose
or
their
booster
dose,,
which
is
55
percent.
A
A
As
we
get
closer
to
this
transition
and
Finally,,
we
wanted
to
highlight
some
data
and
some
things
if
the
cases
start
to
drop,
but
it
is
still
important
to
protect
yourself.
Please.
If
you
have
any
symptoms,
stay
home
call
your
healthcare
providers
make
sure
you
stay
home
for
at
least
five
days,
especially
if
you
have
symptoms
or
if
your
test
is
still
positive,
make
sure
you
stay
until
you
are
fever
free
and
remember,
immunizations.
B
B
The
health
department
is
not
showing
this
data
on
their
list.
They
are
using
the
cdc
numbers.
Where
do
they
get
that
information
if
with
the
north
meat
department
to
the
that
information
from
your
database?
But
that
was
created
by
the
state
of
carolina
del
north
for
vaccine
providers
in
the
north?
We
are
not
participating
in
a
federal
program.
B
What
they
do
is
combine
that
information
with
meat
providers
in
the
north,
and
it
is
obtained
from
federal
providers
that
can
be
from
prison
veterans
and
with
that
data
related
to
the
county
that
has
already
been
corrected
and
that
that
data
that
information
comes
from
the
cdc
from
their
database
and
those
of
north
carolina
combined.
We
also
have
the
federal
program
of
pharmacies
like
wal
15
days
that
are
participating
in
this
program,
and
this
information
is
also
put
there.
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
I
don't
know
if
there
are
people
or
that
idea,
or
that
model
would
be
a
good
thing
so
that
everything
flows
faster,
but
we
have
an
idea
of
how
that
will
work
in
our
community.
Thanks
for
that
question
for
devon
cam
county,
no,
we
do
not
provide
health
care,
and
that
would
be
outside
of
our
line
of
work,
but
the
con
The
concept
of
facilitating
that
in
some
way
or
helping
to
get
that
out
there.
We
can
help
with
that
definitely
comes
to
mind.
B
And
there
are
different
types
of
therapies
available
to
deal
with
this,
but
I
can
take
this
to
that
group
and
see
what
is
possible
around
an
effort
to
be
able
to,
and
let
people
know
how
to
navigate
the
system.
How
to
get
this
and
if
I
would
say,
the
amounts
of
pills
that
I
have
available
are
very
limited
and
perhaps
more
providers
or
doctors
will
be
able
to
and
know
about
it.
So
to
obtain
these
medications,
they
need
a
prescription
right
and
they
do
not
make
exact
statistics.