COVID-19 numbers have spiked across North Carolina in recent days. BPR’s Lilly Knoepp has a look at what’s going on in the far-western counties… When infections spiked at the beginning of this year, Western North Carolina was a few weeks behind more urban parts of the state in seeing high COVID-19 numbers. That’s not the case in this newest wave explains Haywood County Health Department spokesperson Allison Richmond. “I think our spike looks very similar to the state level. I think we are