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North Carolina Re-Enters The 'Red Zone' For COVID-19 Case Counts

A picture of the map of North Carolina with different shades of red to show the number of confirmed cases in each county
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COVID-19 prevalence by county in North Carolina. This map shows confirmed cases of COVID-19 by percentage of population confirmed to be infected as of Oct. 15, 2020.

North Carolina hit its highest one-day case count of COVID-19 since the pandemic began. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services reported 2,684 new cases of COVID-19 Friday, and shared that hospitalizations are also creeping back up. 

The state’s higher daily case count puts it back in the "red zone" for cases according to the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Coronavirus researcherLisa Gralinski joins host Frank Stasio to reflect on the state’s trends and how folks can best plan for a safe holiday season. Gralinski is an assistant professor in the department of epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Amanda Magnus is the executive producer of Embodied, a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships and health. She has also worked on other WUNC shows including Tested and CREEP.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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