The NCDHHS sent guidance to county health offices advising them to not share death records with journalists who requested them.
The guidance was discovered after journalists across the state requested death records during late March and early April to try and gain an understanding of COVID-19 deaths.
What this shows us is that it’s hard to get a full picture of the COVID-19-related deaths.
Employees at five food processing plants in North Carolina have COVID-19. The exact plant names weren’t made public, but the facilities are in Bladen, Chatham, Duplin, Lee and Robeson counties.
The City of Winston-Salem announced a plan to provide a face mask for every resident in the city. Renfro Corp, which is making the masks, is reserving the first 300,000 masks it makes for the city. 60,000 of those masks with be free for low-income residents. Other masks will cost $2.50 each.
Also in California, Santa Clara County officials announced yesterday that two residents died in early and mid-February from the coronavirus. That would make those deaths the earliest deaths due to the virus, and potentially shifts the county’s timeline of the spread.
The stock market is rebounding after oil prices stabilized. From the Washington Post: “The blue-chip index had erased nearly 1,000 points over two days. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index and the tech-heavy Nasdaq both surged 2.1 percent.”
