RALEIGH, N.C. — The number of people being treated in North Carolina hospitals for the novel coronavirus set a record on Monday – the 11th day in a row that has occurred.
Monday’s mark was 2,240 people hospitalized. Meanwhile, another 4,372 new infections and 17 more virus-related deaths were reported. North Carolina’s seven-day averages in all three metrics are at all-time highs, with 4,979 new cases, 2,094 hospitalizations and 43 deaths per day over the last week.
In Wake County, the caseload has jumped 20 percent in two weeks. A quarter of the county’s cases during the nine-month-long pandemic have been reported in the last 25 days alone.
The trend lines have become so troubling to state officials that Dr. Mandy Cohen, secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Services, issued a rare statement on Saturday urging people to “take personal responsibility for their actions” and wear masks and practice physical distancing to help limit the spread of the virus.
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