There were 97 deaths reported statewide Sunday, raising the overall total to 8,083.
DHHS lists COVID-19 cases and deaths on the day they are confirmed by medical providers and public health officials, so individuals may have been infected or died days before their cases are counted.
DHHS will not issue a COVID-19 report Monday because of the Martin Luther King Jr. state holiday.
It took just 13 days for the statewide death toll to go from 7,000 to 8,000.
The most deaths statewide per month during the pandemic were 1,542 during December. As of 11 a.m. Sunday, there have been 1,280 deaths during January.
Nationally, N.C. ranks 16th in overall deaths, and fourth in the Southeast behind Florida (23,799 as of Friday), Georgia (12,138) and Tennessee (8,311).
President-elect Joe Bidens plan comes at a time when the nation needs all the help it can get fighting the coronavirus. More than 4,200 people in the United States died of COVID this past Tuesday, a new daily record high. The president-elects plan includes a national vaccination program, setting up community vaccination sites nationwide, scaling up testing and tracing, investing in high-quality treatments, providing paid sick leave to contain spread of the virus, and addressing health disparities. His proposal suggests investing $20 billion in a national vaccination program. Right now, much of the vaccine rollout has been left to the states, which have struggled to get vaccines into arms at a faster pace because they dont have enough money or people. That people problem could be addressed by a funding emergency hiring for a community health worker program Bidens putting forward, aiming to cover 100,000 public health workers.That would nearly triple the countrys comm
The Forsyth County Department of Public Health offered Saturday an online option for COVID-19 application appointments that opened and closed in a 7½-hour window.
The former Sears retail store at Hanes Mall owned by Novant Health Inc. is going to serve as a COVID-19 mass-vaccination site for Forsyth County, the health system said Friday.
The goal is to open the Hanes Mall site on Jan. 25, said Dr. Pam Oliver, president of Novant s Physician Network.Â
Novant said the site could provide up to 7,000 vaccinations a day â if it s able to get a consistent supply of vaccine from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services.
The doses would be provided by appointment only. Oliver said the current plan is a weekday schedule of either 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. or 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., again depending on weekly allocations from DHHS.