Dashboard: App State and Watauga County COVID case count
With COVID-19 cases surging across the country, App State posts the number of COVID-19 cases among students and employees.
Below is an interactive dashboard with data provided by App State and AppHealthCare. Data from App State and AppHealthCare is updated daily.
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Below is a dashboard of cumulative cases across the UNC System as well as Duke University and Meredith College. All data is updated on a weekly with the number of cases reported by the individual school. Click here if the dashboard does not work.
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Moss Brennan, Political Editor
Moss Brennan (he/him) is a senior journalism major with a minor in political science and media studies. He has worked on The Appalachian since freshman...
I think students and parents should stay away. Too many people escaping up to this area impacts us who actually do live here .. So just stay away
The university has been there since 1899 so I’m guessing all that live in Boone are aware they must share their home area with students who are also residents for 9 months a year just as you are. Maybe you should rethink your feelings about parents and students. For 120 years the amount of money brought into Boone by those parents and students contribute to the city economy and employment. Unless you want to see your town shut down and business owners go out if business, maybe you could just ask that when parents visit be sure to take all recommended precautions and keep stressing to your adult family members in school to also follow precautions. By the end of next week, the numbers should tell everyone what risks they are taking keeping dorms open. This is just my thought. I dont mean any harm, just wanted to give you a place where you could put yourself in the shoes of a parent whose child is living there.
I agree with Jon all tourists should stay at home all they are doing is infecting those if us who live here and are spreading this virus go home and stay there
ASU students should stay home! ASU has always had a great distance learning program. I know because I have been one of those students. My adult child is home taking all his courses online. I am SO happy that his college decided against in-person instruction. All these ASU parents that are complaining against this are probably bringing students from other states like NY and FL. Their kids are going to get the elderly sick. I would question these parents feelings and motives for their children when they want to send their kids into a highly potential COVID situation. Are they wanting their kids to get sick?
I think app state will do the best they can do and it does come a point when we have to start living our life and don’t forget if those students don’t get to come to school Boone shops and stores could go bankrupt
I also agree with Jon and Dianna. This has nothing to do with the amount of money students, parents, tourists bring up here. This is a health and safety issue and the permanent resident of the area are being affected by the disregard of outsiders bringing the virus up here. I want everyone to enjoy what the high country has to offer but, this virus is nothing to take lightly and we all need to think about how it affects others over our own personal wants and needs. Stop selfishly spreading this virus around the country!!!
I think everything started back up too soon. A few more months out of school, could have made a difference in safety for everyone. Now numbers in the virus are getting higher. Now what? Wrong decision. Do they realize people are dying? This is a serious matter!!!!!!!! Tj
The blame is not on students or parents. The administration of Appalachian State University and our American government as a whole are to blame for this crisis. The administrators did not do enough to ensure the sanitation of residence halls, and did little to make sure classes could proceed online as they should have. They have always been slow to respond to issues, and happy to collect the money of students and their parents. That bubble is bursting now and we’re watching it unfold. If ASU can’t create an online program to rival those of community colleges, they will fail to carry on in this new climate. People really need to think carefully about their political choices come November. Is the current administration doing the best it can for the Appalachian community? What will be best for our community in the coming years. Demand action, whatever that means to you! We can’t be mad at our leaders if we never let them know we are upset.
You all are wrong. My daughter and I have spent days writing to professors and Dean and advisors. She paid in full for last year and they won’t let her take classes. She MUST ATTEND. Well the housing again is shit. The info coming out of app is the same. Corona virus can damage the soft tissue around heart. I know cause my other daughter got it. We want them home and in school. So go to app state tell them to put students and community before money and get these kids in off campus class. I could see being a freshman or sophmore. But she still has stuff in storage. We are not paying yearly lease for another kick out. And she was a resident full time at app. We have been asking how this will work for weeks and app waits till Aug 16. Oh and do the professors work for App. Why should we ask them if they could do online. I owned a company my whole life. If I say build it online. They will as long as paid. So go get in apps face. And your right we don’t want her there cause app is a resort town you will get them from all over. # hashtag App screwed up and is clueless
Y’all are delusional seriously stay away I live here your gonna affect us. Wow some of you really need to stop listening to this idiot governor and wake up
Steve, what do you mean by “stop listening to this idiot governor”? Last time I checked the governor of NC is prolonging phase 2–an option other politicians want to ignore, in favor of opening more businesses and loosening restrictions on mask policies. But arguing over whether or not someone is an idiot beings me right back to the bus in middle school. We’ve got to talk like adults now, because serious issues are at hand.
It’s not about who is in office, it’s about what they do. The issue isn’t about when this or that will open, it’s about who needs support. If we have to pay businesses to stay shut and pay people to stay home, then we do it. We had enough money to build the atomic bomb, we have enough to keep our citizens safe.
I also live here, and I don’t like what’s happening on campus, so we are in agreement. I just get really tired of the red vs blue argument when we don’t have time to take sides. It’s about supporting everyone in a time of crisis. I know politics used to be about left and right, but it’s time to put that aside if we want to accomplish anything.
“Your old road is rapidly aging, so get out of the new one if you can’t lend your hand” was once spoken by a great American. Half a century later it still rings true.
I know that money and finance is a major reason that colleges feel the need to open and they can paint a picture that tells you why it is important to have students on campus but what they can’t show you are the faces of children preteens teenagers young adults on ventilators fighting for their lives begging for help imagine not being able to breathe I see this everyday and until it’s your child or loved one it doesn’t hit home how do you put a price on the cost of an individual this is not good and just to let you know this ain’t easy so Boone brace yourselves your about to see images that will keep you awake at night I never sleep too busy trying to figure out what I’m going to say to the next parents that have to bury their child or children burying parents. You decide is it worth it
Has anyone researched and listened to doctors and scientists who speak truth about this particular strain of Covid and the actual death rate? Mainstream media and alike will not always announce the statistics that look promising or discuss and or interview professionals in the scientific or medical community that don’t fit the narrative in which they care to spew out to the American people.
Has anyone looked into Herd Immunity? It’s a concept, not to mention – a quite smart one, that has been around for quite some time and actually works. Now realize, you need to incorporate safety for the immune deficient parts of our society, such as the elderly, people with illnesses & compromised immune systems no matter their age, JUST AS WE’VE ALWAYS DONE FOR FLU SEASON EACH YEAR .
This idea of HERD IMMUNITY is when you don’t suppress the disease entirely and you let society live out each day like normal ( free ). It shows that it is actually good for people to become infected in order to slow the spread. Our Immune Systems will build immunity as it always has with other viruses and bugs.
The Covid-19 virus is known to spread through respiratory droplets of someone infected who coughs or sneezes & are most contagious when they have symptoms, just like the flu. Those infected should stay home from work or school until they feel better and are no longer symptomatic, all the while, the rest of us go on with our daily lives just like we did before this world wide plandemic.
There is emerging evidence that suggests that there is a narrow window for transmission and patients with COVID-19 are at most infectious for a short period of time, and that evidence, destroys the Myth of Asymptomatic Carriers.
We know now that MORE PEOPLE DIE from the “COMMON FLU” that shows up every year, than this strain of Covid- the Covid -19, not to mention that many people get vaccinated for the FLU & still seem to get it. Hmm (Vaccines are a whole other conversation)
Has anyone considered being Pro Active in talking with your doctor about Prophylactic Therapies along with dispensing KNOWN Medications that WORK and have cured hundreds if not thousands of patients that tested positive? i.e. Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, Vitamin C in high doses via IV.
Has anyone considered the numerous DANGERS in wearing masks for an extended period of time and the LONG TERM EFFECTS?
“Mask Wearing Demands Is The Most Recent Plaque on Society”.
Dangers such as, did you know that the lack of oxygen can lower your immune system and that when you wear a mask it is lowering the amount of oxygen you breath in, not to mention that for many, just having to wear the masks is causing STRESS which also lowers your immunity. COMPROMISED IMMUNITY MEANS YOUR MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO ILLNESS. To you get where I’m going with this?
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Jesus, Karen. This guy is just trying to show some cool Tableau vizzes and here you are mask shaming people. People are dying. Period. Wear the mask and stop screaming “bUt My FrEeDoMs!”
You do you, Moss. Keep updating this and honing those Tableau skills!