Data Behind the Dashboards
NCDHHS has provided the following data from our NC Respiratory Virus dashboards: Emergency department visits and hospital admissions, and wastewater monitoring.
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Archived data is available: Archived Dashboards
Daily Cases and Deaths Metrics, Daily Testing Metrics, County Cases and Deaths, ZIP Code Cases and Deaths, Demographics, Cases Demographics, Outbreaks and Clusters, PPE, Hospital Patient Data, Hospital Beds and Ventilators, Hospitalization Demographics, Vaccinations - Doses by County, People Vaccinated by County and People Vaccinated Demographics.
Respiratory Dashboards
- Summary
- Wastewater Testing
- Immunizations
- Detailed Virus Activity
- Data Behind the Dashboards
- Archived Dashboards
Data Sources for the NC Respiratory Data Dashboard
North Carolina collects data from several sources and partners to monitor the viral respiratory activity in North Carolina. The following data sources are used in the dashboard. The data is considered preliminary and may change.
North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT)
NC DETECT is a statewide, electronic, real-time public health surveillance system. NC DETECT was created to provide early event detection and timely public health surveillance using a variety of secondary data sources, including data from North Carolina Emergency Departments (ED). Each ED visit is grouped into syndromes based on keywords in several different fields and/or diagnosis codes. Three syndromes used to track COVID-like illness (CLI), influenza-like illness (ILI), and RSV-like illness (RLI) are presented in syndromic surveillance graphs. The CLI and RLI syndromes use keywords and diagnosis codes while the ILI syndrome only uses diagnosis codes. CLI, ILI, and RLI data track the number and percentage of ED visits for illnesses compatible with COVID-19, influenza, and RSV. This includes visits that do not have positive test results for the disease.
Hospital-Based Public Health Epidemiologists (PHE)
The PHE program is composed of epidemiologists embedded at seven of North Carolina's largest hospital systems, covering approximately 30 percent of general/acute care beds and 35 percent of ED visits. The PHE program seeks to enhance communication among clinicians, hospitals, and the public health system and plays a critical role in routine and urgent communicable disease prevention and response/control, hospital-based reporting and surveillance of communicable diseases, outbreak detection and monitoring as well as case finding during community outbreaks in the state.