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Author Archives: Rose Hoban

Rose Hoban is the founder and editor of NC Health News, as well as being the state government reporter.

Hoban has been a registered nurse since 1992, but transitioned to journalism after earning degrees in public health policy and journalism. She's reported on science, health, policy and research in NC since 2005. Contact: editor at northcarolinahealthnews.org

Posted inHealthcare Workers

Within a decade, NC could be short more than 21,000 nurses

by Rose Hoban March 2, 2022March 2, 2022
we see the back of a man's head and his hands are holding the box for a QuickVue Home COVID test
Posted inInfectious Disease

More rapid tests are coming. What’s the best way to use them?

by Rose Hoban January 18, 2022January 18, 2022
Shows nurses desks in an intensive care ward. The desks are across a corridor from a wall of windows looking into the rooms of ICU patients who are sick with COVID.
Posted inInfectious Disease

‘Incidental’ COVID cases, full ICUs, plus staff shortages stressing NC hospitals

by Rose Hoban January 14, 2022January 14, 2022
shows a crystal ball on a background of blue, sitting on a yellow velvet stand
Posted inMedicaid

A look ahead for health in N.C. for 2022

by Rose Hoban, Anne Blythe, Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven, Thomas Goldsmith, Taylor Knopf and Elizabeth Thompson January 3, 2022December 31, 2021
shows a laptop opened to the NC Health News home page, with a set of hands on the keyboard
Posted inPublic Health

NC Health News’ top ten reader picks in 2021

by Rose Hoban, Anne Blythe, Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven, Thomas Goldsmith, Taylor Knopf and Elizabeth Thompson December 30, 2021December 30, 2021
Shows a smiling woman sitting at the top of a cliff. Below her is a dramatic bend in a river at the bottom of a canyon.
Posted inInfectious Disease

Omicron variant Q&A with UNC virologist Lisa Gralinski

by Rose Hoban December 22, 2021December 27, 2021

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