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By Neill Caldwell neill.caldwell@thestokesnews.com
Nurses at Wake Forest Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem unpack a shipment of Pfizer vaccine on Monday.
Local COVID-19 positive cases continue to rise, past 1,815 this week, with one additional death, the Stokes County Health Department reports. There are 177 people currently in isolation at home, plus 12 are hospitalized. Thankfully 1,600 have recovered.
The county has added 217 new cases in the past week, or an average of 31 a day.
In the latest update of the state county alert system, released Tuesday afternoon, Stokes has gone from yellow to orange, or showing a “substantial spread” of COVID, the middle of the three classifications. And Stokes is completely surrounded by red, or “critical,” counties. ....

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