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Coronavirus Today – May 22 – Restaurant effort to boost confidence; craft brewery confusion; NASCAR and Atrium team up

May 22, 2020 by Editor Leave a Comment

Coronavirus Today – May 22 – Restaurant effort to boost confidence; craft brewery confusion; NASCAR and Atrium team up - North Carolina Health News

Restaurants are back with a new campaign to boost customer confidence as dining moves back inside.

By North Carolina Health News staff Count On Me NC campaign Now that restaurants can serve diners inside again with new social distancing requirements, a large question looms: Will diners feel comfortable enough to return? With that in mind, the North Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Association has helped develop the Count On Me NC program […]

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Four things North Carolina’s coronavirus data tells us — and what it doesn’t.

April 14, 2020 by Liora Engel-Smith

Four things North Carolina’s coronavirus data tells us — and what it doesn’t. - North Carolina Health News

The coronavirus outbreak has brought on an onslaught of data, but what do these numbers actually mean?

By Liora Engel-Smith From case numbers to deaths to the number of open intensive care beds in the state, there isn’t a lack of numbers when it comes to discussing the coronavirus pandemic in North Carolina. But all data is limited in what it can and cannot tell us. If you want to understand how […]

State health Sec. Mandy Cohen stands with her head bowed before March 31 press briefing on coronavirus.

Coronavirus Today – April 1 – Managing limited PPE supplies, tracking the spread, face masks for healthy people

April 1, 2020 by Editor

Coronavirus Today – April 1 – Managing limited PPE supplies, tracking the spread, face masks for healthy people - North Carolina Health News

State officials said that they are working on shoring up North Carolina’s supply of protective equipment. Meanwhile, the health department is working to create more accurate predictions of how the virus will affect the state.

By North Carolina Health News staff In search of an accurate disease model As North Carolina works through its first week of a statewide stay-at-home order, state department of health secretary Mandy Cohen cautioned that it’s hard to predict exactly how the outbreak will play out in North Carolina. Various models for the spread and […]

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A universal flu vaccine in their sights

March 24, 2020 by Sarah Ovaska

A universal flu vaccine in their sights - North Carolina Health News

Coronavirus isn't the only deadly virus making the rounds. Duke researchers have tapped by the federal government to work on a vaccine that could save thousands of lives struck down by flu.

By Sarah Ovaska A team of Duke University doctors and researchers are racing to stop – or at least dull – the deadly rampage of the influenza virus, a pathogen that claims the lives of between 12,000 and 61,000 Americans annually. The Duke Human Vaccine Institute, emboldened with up to $400 million in federal grants […]

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NC health centers ramp up COVID-19 outreach to vulnerable patients

March 9, 2020 by Liora Engel-Smith

NC health centers ramp up COVID-19 outreach to vulnerable patients - North Carolina Health News

As coronavirus spreads across the nation, health centers across the state are racing to educate some of their most vulnerable patients.

By Liora Engel-Smith As the state contends with its second COVID-19 case, this one in Chatham County, North Carolina’s community health centers are stepping up their outreach to some of the most vulnerable members of every community: the uninsured and medically fragile. By recent count, more than a million North Carolinians lacked health insurance. About […]

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Hospitals in NC have been under pressure. Would they be able to manage a surge of coronavirus patients?

March 2, 2020 by Liora Engel-Smith

Hospitals in NC have been under pressure. Would they be able to manage a surge of coronavirus patients? - North Carolina Health News

Experts from in and out of the state say that the prospect of worst-case scenario for the likely spread of coronavirus in the U.S. expose weaknesses in the country’s hospital ecosystem.

By Rose Hoban and Liora Engel-Smith As the World Health Organization warns the new coronavirus has “pandemic potential,” state and national experts worry that in the case of a widespread and sustained outbreak, an influx of patients could lay bare the glaring resource inequities between urban and rural hospitals. Since the pathogen was first identified […]

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Flu cases starting to subside in N.C., country, but kids still at risk

February 27, 2020 by Sarah Ovaska

Flu cases starting to subside in N.C., country, but kids still at risk - North Carolina Health News

This year’s flu season has been among the deadliest for children in the last 15 years.

By Sarah Ovaska While public health officials issue warnings about a newly emerged strain of coronavirus reaching the United States, the country is still battling with another deadly respiratory virus — influenza. This year’s flu season has hit children particularly hard, with the emergence early on of the influenza B strain that tends to affect […]

Coronavirus risk remains low in NC, but health officials plan for it just in case

February 14, 2020 by Anne Blythe

Coronavirus risk remains low in NC, but health officials plan for it just in case - North Carolina Health News

State epidemiologist Zack Moore outlines the state’s coronavirus planning as illness spreads in China.

By Anne Blythe Even before news feeds were disseminating story after story on the coronavirus outbreak in China, North Carolina’s state epidemiologist and others dedicated to protecting the public’s health were in high gear. Zack Moore, the state epidemiologist and a physician who has been with the North Carolina Division of Public Health since 2006, […]

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