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Tag: Avery County

shows a county map of north carolina with darker counties being places with higher rates of COVID-19. The darkest counties right now are all rural.
Posted inInfectious Disease

Coronavirus Today – Oct. 21 – Paused in Phase 3; Counties asked to toughen COVID restrictions; Promising treatment underperforms; Veterans’ home outbreaks

by Anne Blythe October 21, 2020April 14, 2021
We see a hand holding a cardboard sign that says, "#Free Them All" sticking out the passenger window of a compact white car passing the Durham County Detention Facility. The car is part of a caravan of protestors calling for the release of inmates who are unable to pay bail during the pandemic. It's Father's Day, 2020.
Posted inPrison Health

Even as NC’s COVID numbers stabilize, jail outbreaks spike

by Hannah Critchfield August 11, 2020January 29, 2021
shows men bent over green plants, pulling peppers into baskets
Posted inInfectious Disease

Coronavirus Today – July 23 – Follow the three Ws, say Mexican and Guatemalan consulate leaders; Plug for Medicaid expansion; ‘Not yet turned a corner’

by Anne Blythe July 23, 2020April 14, 2021
red barn on a hillside, next to a field of grass. It's an analogy for rural health or the rural-urban divide.
Posted inRural Health

COVID-19 affected NC’s rural economies long before the first confirmed cases arrived there

by Liora Engel-Smith June 2, 2020June 1, 2020
shows a facemask used to prevent COVID 19 transmission. It's blue with an outline of the state of North Carolina with the flag colors inside the outline
Posted inInfectious Disease

Coronavirus Today – May 19 – Heated Lincoln County debate; nod to older North Carolinians; Avery County gets first COVID case

by Editor May 19, 2020April 14, 2021
long distance landscape photo of mountains receding into the distance.
Posted inRural Health

Can western NC counties escape the worst of the pandemic?

by Melba Newsome May 5, 2020January 29, 2021

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