COVID-19 case numbers for Macon County
Uncategorized May 18, 2020
MACON COUNTY, N.C. – As part of the effort to keep the county informed, Macon County Health Department (JCHD) issues daily detailed updates about the status of COVID-19, including recovery numbers.
The following information is from the September 23rd update.
MCHD has reported confirmed 606 cases and 7 death due to COVID-19. Currently, 575 have recovered from the virus and 24 patients are still active.
7,641 tests were reported to MCHD and 5,566 were conducted by MCHD staff. 66 are still pending results.
Statewide the NCDHHS has confirmed 196,501 cases in 99 N.C. counties. 912 are currently hospitalized, and 3,345 have died.
MCHD also emphasizes that anyone who becomes ill with a respiratory type illness to isolate until the following criteria are met:
At least 3 days (72 hours) have passed since recovery defined as resolution of fever without the use of fever-reducing medications and improvement in respiratory symptoms (e.g., cough, shortness of breath), AND
At least 7 days have passed since symptoms first appeared.
If you believe that you may have COVID-19, please call the Health Department at 828-349-2517. The call center is open Monday through Friday from 8:00am – 5:00pm, until further notice.
Trial date set for man accused of killing family members
News, Press Release June 2, 2020
MACON COUNTY, N.C. – A trial date is now in place for Paul Eugene Snow, the Macon County man accused of killing his mother and sister in November 2016, District Attorney Ashley Hornsby Welch said Tuesday.
Jury selection for Snow’s trial is set for the Oct. 26th term of Macon County Superior Court. The 53-year-old faces two counts of first-degree murder. If convicted, Snow would spend the remainder of his life in prison.
Monday, deputies served Snow with a separate, but related, grand-jury indictment for arson. That case is on Macon County’s court calendar for July 6. At that time, Chief Resident Superior Court Judge Bill Coward also intends, in advance of Snow’s murder trial, to accept and review pre-trial motions.
Snow’s attorney, Tony Dalton of Brevard, told Coward in court this week he would represent his client on both the murder and arson charges.
Prosecutors say the suspect shot his mother, Sunshine Snow, and sister, Jacquetta Snow, then set ablaze their Creekside home in the Cartoogechaye community. Investigators discovered the women’s bodies after firefighters extinguished the fire.
Police in Santa Rosa County, Florida arrested Snow about two weeks later, on Nov. 21, on an outstanding warrant of failing to register in North Carolina as a sex offender. That charge of failure to report a new address is pending.
Feature image courtesy of District Attorney Ashley Hornsby.