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Franklin “Buck” Delano Hall, age 83, of Mount Airy, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, at Walnut Cove Health and Rehabilitation Center. He was born in Surry County on Sept. ....
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. ....
By Neill Caldwell neill.caldwell@thestokesnews.com Nurses with the county’s Health Department conduct a mass testing event at the Lawsonville Fire Department on Monday. Two drive-thru lanes were set up on Monday in the bays of the fire department building. It was the first mass testing done in Lawsonville. There have now been 25 deaths in Stokes County due to COVID-19, the Health Department reports, and nearly 250 cases added in the past week alone, or more than 35 new positives a day. By any measure the numbers are sobering: As of Tuesday there have been 1,611 lab-confirmed positive cases in Stokes County, with 33 cases added from Monday. The number of people hospitalized is 12, with 146 currently in isolation. There have been 1,428 recoveries. ....