Nearly 4,000 New COVID Cases In Mecklenburg This Week: CDC

MECKLENBURG COUNTY, NC — Spread of COVID-19 in Mecklenburg County rose by at least 45 percent over a seven-day span, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.

As of Wednesday, Aug. 11, at least 3,829 new cases were reported in the county over a seven-day period, according to the CDC COVID-19 tracker. The county's positivity rate rose nearly one percent, to about 13 percent, as testing overall rose by more than 26 percent with nearly 35,000 tests administered in the week.

At least 47 percent of those living in Mecklenburg County were fully vaccinated, CDC said.

New COVID-19 hospitalizations spiked by nearly 73 percent during the week ending Aug. 11, with 226 new patients, the CDC said.

Use of Intensive Care Unit beds was also up, by more than 7 percent, with an estimated 21 percent of ICU beds in use, the agency said.

Statewide, the number of COVID-19 cases rose by more than 6,6000 new cases Friday, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services reported. As of Aug. 13, at least one out of every four of the 2,483 patients hospitalized in the state for COVID illness were in an intensive care unit, leaving 13 percent of the state's staffed ICU beds available, according to DHHS data.

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