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Athens Drive Magnet High School and Conn Magnet Elementary School won national awards Saturday at the Magnet Schools of America's annual conference.

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Health officials have maintained that morbidity rates and strains on hospital systems are two ways to best track COVID spread and severity.

North Carolina has reported almost 800,000 COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic.

And the death toll continues to rise, some days at <a href="https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/story/deadliest-week-for-coronavirus-in-nc-rolls-on/19497225/">alarming rates</a>.

However, hospital capacity in North Carolina appears to be improving.

Health officials say morbidity rates and strains on hospital systems are two ways to best track COVID spread and severity. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has described those metrics as "the burden of the disease," so WRAL keeps an eye on <a href="https://healthdata.gov/dataset/covid-19-reported-patient-impact-and-hospital-capacity-facility" target="_blank" rel="noopener">federal data</a> that tracks hospital capacity and occupancy rates, especially pertaining to COVID-19 patients.

The North Carolina COVID-19 Dashboard. The latest Coronavirus case numbers, deaths, hospitalizations, and other key coronavirus stats for North Carolina and the US.

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<p>As cases of COVID-19, the illness associated with the new coronavirus, spread across North Carolina and the world, WRAL News is providing interactive maps, graphs and data to help explain the spread of this disease, now classified as a pandemic. {{a href="page-19028981"}}Click here for the latest coronavirus coverage from WRAL's news archive.{{/a}}</p>

<p><em>NOTE: On Sept. 25, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services began releasing data on both molecular (PCR) and antigen testing in North Carolina. WRAL added this data on Sept. 28, resulting in updates to several of the graphs and charts on the dashboard below. {{a href="external_link-19309937"}}Read more about the corrections and compare the changes here.{{/a}}</em></p>

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This week, North Carolina hospitals are reporting a thousand fewer patients than they did in mid-January.

The Atlantic uses federal data in an <a href="https://covidtracking.com/data/hospital-facilities#-80.99265869120524,35.289984814037965,8.5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interactive tool </a> showing how much stress the virus is putting on health care systems. The size of the circles shows how many COVID patients are in each hospital, and the intensity of the hue depicts the percentage of patients hospitalized who have the coronavirus.

According to the Atlantic, Duke and WakeMed have fewer patients than they did a few weeks ago. Hospitals in the Triangle are faring better than some others in the state. North Carolina hospitals, as a whole, are significantly less stressed than neighboring South Carolina and Georgia.

That doesn't mean local hospitals have an abundance of beds. ICU occupancy rates remain an issue. Duke is currently at 100% capacity for intensive care beds.

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A person is in custody Tuesday after a firearm was brought to Shaw University's campus in downtown Raleigh.



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