WRAL.com reports the number of coronavirus-related deaths in North Carolina continues to spike, and the state on Thursday surpassed 9,000 deaths during the pandemic.
Shannon Carson, MD, professor of medicine and chief of the division of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine, said virus-related deaths are the final metric to spike after infections and hospitalizations.
“After a week or two, they might need to be hospitalized,” Carson said, adding that someone might be moved to an intensive care unit after four or five days in the hospital. “Almost 30 percent of them, if they reach the intensive care unit, will not survive hospitalization.”
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