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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

By Rose Hoban Susan Paulsen started having chest pain on Monday. The 60-year-old painter who lives in Chapel Hill waited four hours, thinking it was indigestion, hoping it would go away. Besides, she didn’t want to go near a hospital. “That seemed like a place I might catch it,” Paulsen said, referring to the Omicron […]

a hand holds a glass globe, flipping the reflection of a sunset over the beach
Posted inRural Health

2021: COVID still looms large

by Editor January 4, 2021January 26, 2021
shows two people, both wearing masks to stop transmission of COVID, the women in this photo is in the foreground and out of focus
Posted inInfectious Disease

Coronavirus Today – Dec. 30 Which COVID-19 vaccine phase are you in?; If you’re 75 and older, a shot might be available in January; Eviction moratorium extended

by Anne Blythe December 30, 2020April 14, 2021
A cross stitched pattern of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19,a round shape with spikes coming out of it.
Posted inInfectious Disease

A look back at 2020’s biggest story: The COVID-19 pandemic

by Editor December 30, 2020April 12, 2021
A woman with redness in her face is looking at the camera
Posted inInfectious Disease

NC hospitals to reach ICU capacity by January if COVID trends continue

by Liora Engel-Smith December 10, 2020December 9, 2020
shows a man in a respirator helmet talking to a woman in a facemask in an intensive care unit where there have been many coronavirus or COVID patients.
Posted inInfectious Disease

New approaches to treating seriously ill COVID patients may persist beyond the pandemic

by Rose Hoban November 18, 2020January 27, 2021

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