Name: 'Things are going to get better:' Vaccines, variants are key to winter COVID trend
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Description: New projections from an epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill paint a positive picture of herd immunity and fewer COVID-29 cases through the coming winter.

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IT IS DRYING OUT BUT THAT COULD CHANGE IN THE COMING HOURS. METEORLOGIST MIKE MAZE HAS LOOK AT THE FORECAST COMING UP  IN A COUPLE MINUTES. >>> EARLIER WE WERE LOOKING AT THIS CURVE, THE SEVEN-DAY ROLLING AVERAGE OF NEW CASES. WE SEE IT GOING DOWN. ALTHOUGH IT IS LEVELING WHICH YOU CAN SEE AT THE END AT A PRETTY HIGH RATE. THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF NEW CASES TODAY IN NORTH CAROLINA IS BACK DOWN TO WHERE WE WORK WHEN WE CAME OFF OF THE HOLIDAY PEAK BACK IN JANUARY. IT IS A SITUATION THAT GIVES US HOPE THESE NUMBERS CAN KEEP DROPPING. EXPERT WHO PUT TOGETHER MODELS OF WHAT WE COULD SEE NEXT IN THE PANDEMIC SAY WE COULD SEE THE CASES KEEP DROPPING WELL INTO THE WINTER. THERE ARE A FEW IFS INVOLVED. LAURA LESLIE JOIN US LIVE WITH WHAT THEY EXPLAIN HAS TO HAPPEN TO KEEP COVID UNDER CONTROL. THE COVID-19 MODELING HUB TAKES PROJECTIONS FROM TEAMS AROUND THE COUNTRY AND BALANCES THEM STATISTICALLY. THE LATEST PROJECTION FOR NORTH CAROLINA SAYS DELTA HAS ALREADY PEAKED AND COULD BE RECEDING BY WINTER IF CHILDREN GET VACCINATED AND NO NEW BAVARIA EMERGES. UNC EPIDEMIOLOGIST JUSTIN LEFFLER RUNS THE HUB. HE SAYS IT IS BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN VACCINATED OR HAD COVID, ESPECIALLY WITH DELTA INFECTING THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE A DAY. >> THAT IS CREATING IMMUNITY AND TAKING AWAY PEOPLE FOR THE VIRUS TO INFECT, USING UP THE FUEL FOR THE FIRE WHICH CAUSES THE VIRUS TO RECEDE. >> Reporter: THIS IS THE PROJECTION IF THERE IS A NEW VARIANT MORE INFECTIOUS. YOU CAN SEE THE CASES MOVE UP AGAIN IN THE NEW YEAR. THIS UNC VIROLOGIST THINGS IT IS LIKELY BECAUSE OF HOLIDAY TRAVEL AND THE VIRUS ALWAYS EVOLVING. >> WE WILL PROBABLY SEE ANOTHER VERY THAT SPREADS BETTER. WHETHER THAT VARIANT LEADS TO MORE HOSPITALIZATION IS VERY DIFFERENT. THE ODDS ARE 50/50. >> Reporter: RISING VACCINATION AND IMMUNITY RATES SHOULD HELP MAKE THE NEXT WAVE LESS DEADLY. >> IF WE DON'T ACHIEVE THE VACCINE LEVELS ARE THE VACCINE DOES NOT LAST AS LONG AS WE THINK IT DOES, IT ALL RESETS TO ZERO AND THAT IS THE SCARIER SCENARIO I WORRY ABOUT. >> Reporter: LEFFLER IS MORE OPTIMISTIC DOES NOT WANT PEOPLE TO RELAX. ADULT THE WAVE IS NOT OVER YET. >> AT ME THINGS ARE BAD NOW BUT THINGS WILL GET BETTER. >> Reporter: LEFFLER SAYS THE REAL TURNING POINT FOR THE PANDEMIC IS ONE WE SEE CASES GO BACK FROM A NEW STRAIN OR SEASONAL WEIGHT BUT WE DO NOT SEEK HOSPITALIZATIONS AND DEATHS GOING BACK OUT.

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'Things are going to get better:' Vaccines, variants are key to winter COVID trend

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I'm meteorologist K Campbell in the severe weather center. It's feeling like summer again. On Thursday, high temperatures reach the upper eighties and we could come awfully close to 90 in Fayetteville. It's possible. Fayetteville sees the 1st 90 degree day of the year. The average first day in the nineties in Fayetteville is, is May 3rd and May twelveth here in the triangle. 87 in the triangle and 85 in rocks, a lot more sunshine in the forecast tomorrow. Those clouds that we saw, they're going to be clearing out overnight. So get some fresh air, enjoy it while you can. We're not going to see these warm days every day for our seven day. We'll wake up to temperatures in the low sixties warming up to 80 degrees by noon and upper eighties for highs during the afternoon. We've got the sunshine tomorrow, but a lot of us could really use the rain, especially anybody who's starting with their gardening, our rainfall for the month of April 66 inches. So that's more than an inch below normal. I would recommend to keep watering your gardens. We do have some opportunities for rain, but none of these rounds look like a widespread soaking rain. I would go ahead and keep watering. We've got a 40% chance of storms on the way. Friday and Friday, we need to keep an eye on the potential for a severe storm. Tonight. We're seeing showers dissipate as they move closer to us. And that trend should continue. We dry out throughout the day tomorrow with the sunshine and then here comes Friday's front in the morning, we'll see some rain in the mountains kind of falling apart. But as this front gets closer to us during the afternoon, as we're heating up, we'll have a more energized atmosphere and this should create some lift to generate some scattered storms throughout the afternoon and evening. It's about a 40% chance that you would see one at your house. The issue is pretty much anywhere in our viewing area. There could be a severe storm. That's why there's level one out of five threat for severe storms, Friday. The threats, damaging wind gusts and hail your seven day forecast shows some big changes are on the way for the weekend. We are cooling down, especially on Sunday, just 68 for the high falling into the 40 Sunday night into Monday morning, Monday, mostly cloudy, some lingering sprinkles possible. And then next week, temperatures are right back in the mid seventies, which is pretty much on par with where we should be this time of year

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Good evening. I'm Gail her. Welcome to tonight's drawing for Wednesday, April 17th, 2024. Well, let's get start tonight with our Carolina pick three. Our first winning numbers are two. Our second number is nine and the third number tonight is six and our pick three. Fireball number is an eight. Joining me for tonight's show is the auditor from mcconnell and Jones L LP. Now lets move of the Carolina pick four. Good luck. Everyone who's that first number. It's a three. Our second pick four. Number is one, third, one is one again and our fourth pick four number is a nine and our pick for fireball number is a six. Well, turning now to the Carolina cash five. If no one was the top prize tonight, tomorrow's top prize is estimated at $191,000. Good luck. Everyone is that first winning cash five number. It's 33. Our second number is an eight third number. Tonight is 10. Our fourth number is 22 and the final number in our cash five this evening, 41 the North Carolina education lottery has contributed over $10 billion to education. Get your winning numbers right here every night at your exclusive station for the North Carolina Education lottery. Thanks for playing. Have a great night.

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