Health and human services Secretary Kody Kinsley (l) took over managing the pandemic response for the state of North Carolina in January, 2022. Before that, he was an assistant secretary in the state Department of Health and Human Services tasked with handling many of the logistics of the pandemic response.
He and Gov. Roy Cooper said in March 2022 that they expect the worst of the COVID pandemic to be behind us. Photo credit: Rose Hoban
NC pandemic, COVId-19, path forward, ‘worst is behind us’