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2 years and over 1,500 deaths later: A look at COVID’s toll on Mecklenburg County

By Hannah Smoot, The Charlotte Observer

 

On Saturday, Mecklenburg hit the two-year anniversary of the first COVID case reported in a county resident.

Just weeks after that first case, Mecklenburg County announced the first county resident died from the coronavirus on March 29, 2020.

Mecklenburg’s first COVID death was in a 60-year-old resident with “significant underlying health conditions,” then-county health director Gibbie Harris said at the time.

Since then, more than 1,560 Mecklenburg residents have died due to COVID. And more than 275,000 people have been infected with the virus in the county.

 

Read more at The Charlotte Observer

 

The Charlotte Journalism Collaborative is supported by the Local Media Project, an initiative launched by the Solutions Journalism Network with support from the Knight Foundation to strengthen and reinvigorate local media ecosystems.

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About The Project

Solutions Journalism Network launched the Charlotte Journalism Collaborative in 2019, a partnership of six major media companies and other local institutions focusing on issues of major importance to the Charlotte region. The collaborative is supported by $150,000 from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as part of its $300 million commitment to rebuild the future of local journalism, essential to a functioning democracy.

The Charlotte Journalism Collaborative (CJC) is modeled on the Solutions Journalism Network method of investigating and reporting news with a primary focus on solutions to community problems. “At a time when local journalism jobs are disappearing and trust in media has hit an all-time low, the Solutions Journalism Network has taken on the challenge by organizing collaborative journalism reporting projects that promote excellent reporting and civic dialogue. the model has the potential to be part of a new wave of great local reporting, which is vital to building strong communities,” said Karen Rundlet, Knight Foundation director for journalism.

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