Here is the NC Threat-Free Index for the week of Nov. 30:
- As of Nov. 30, well over 300,000 (315,979) North Carolinians are presumed to be recovered from COVID-19
- Active cases comprise just 12% of NC’s total case count (note: a case of COVID isn’t a permanent infection, and only someone with an active case of the virus can conceivably transmit it to you)
- Active cases represent just 0.4% (four-tenths of one percent) of NC’s population (note: active cases are lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 minus recoveries and deaths)
- Nearly seven out of every eight (86.7%) of NC’s total cases are recovered, meaning they are no longer infectious
- Only 0.05% of people in NC have died with COVID-19 (regardless of the actual cause of death)
- Over 96.5% people in NC have never had a lab-confirmed case of COVID-19, despite the PCR test cycle threshold set so high as to produce a large amount of false positives (note: this proportion will always decline, but we have been living with this virus since February, as far as testing is concerned)
- All considered, 99.5% of people in NC pose no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone — a virus most have never had and the rest have recovered from (note: this proportion will fluctuate based on the relative growth in lab-confirmed cases vs. recoveries) (side note: this proportion is likely understated because NC’s population has continued to grow since July)
