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shows a group of girls on a zipline platform, all wearing safety gear and face coverings
Posted inChildren's Health

Summer camps get creative to carry on in pandemic

by Aaliyah Bowden August 6, 2020August 5, 2020

By Aaliyah Bowden Eleven-year-old Averie M. spent time this summer learning how to zipline, rock climb and do gymnastics at a summer camp in Transylvania County. ā€œThe activities were very fun and you tried new things that you didn’t think you would be able to do,ā€ she said. Averie was lucky to go to sleep-away […]

image shows a family of three, all dressed in black and wearing red and white masks
Posted inInfectious Disease

Waiting for a kidney during a pandemic

by Melba Newsome July 6, 2020January 29, 2021
Shows a crowd of people looking at race cars in an outdoor venue
Posted inPublic Health

Coronavirus Today – June 9 – Action against Alamance speedway; contact tracing after the races; Governor to get tested

by Editor June 9, 2020October 27, 2022
We see a tent with several people in it who are wearing head-to-toe personal protective equipment, thyr'e talking to someone in a car who is waiting to b tested for COVID-19
Posted inInfectious Disease

Coronavirus Today – May 28 – Bars, senators and Cooper; COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations increase; NC poet laureate joins information campaign

by Editor May 28, 2020December 10, 2022
shows a Rosie the Riveter image chalked into the sidewalk, she's wearing a mask and holding a stethescope to combat COVID
Posted inInfectious Disease

Coronavirus Today – April 15 – Research, tests and the need for gradual changes

by Editor April 15, 2020October 27, 2022
Farmers market in Charlotte, NC, this one doesn't accept SNAP
Posted inNutrition

It’s no SNAP getting fresh produce to those who need it

by Yen Duong July 16, 2019July 16, 2019

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