North Carolina set a record over the weekend for the highest number of new cases in a single day. Health officials still describe the state’s coronavirus situation as a simmer, though, and not a boil.
Texas, Arizona, and Florida are running out of hospital capacity.
That’s not the case in North Carolina although hospitalizations are rising incrementally.
The percentage of Covid-19 tests that are positive is also stable – but still too high.
A big reason North Carolina is not spiking, says Governor Roy Cooper, is the state’s mask requirement – and the retailers who insist customers and employees adhere to it.
"For those who continue to defy basic decency and common sense because they refuse to wear a mask, either wear one or don’t go in the store. The refusal to wear a mask is selfish. It infringes on the life and liberty of everyone else in the store. Not only is wearing a mask the decent, neighborly thing to do, it’s the best way to boost our economy."
Cooper also announced the delivery of more than 900k masks to agricultural workers across the state. Protecting farmers and their families is key, says Cooper, to keeping food in grocery stores and on the table.
