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A skilled nursing facility sign is in the foreground and a building is in the background. The facility, A PruittHealth skilled-nursing facility in Orange County, is dealing with an outbreak of COVID-19, and has a history of poor staffing.

Coronavirus Today – April 8 – Nursing home outbreak, food banks need help and prisoner lawsuit

April 8, 2020 by Editor

Coronavirus Today – April 8 – Nursing home outbreak, food banks need help and prisoner lawsuit - North Carolina Health News

An outbreak in PruittHealth – Carolina Point rehabilitation center in Chapel Hill has spread rapidly from last Thursday, when Orange County Public Health officials first publicly reported that two people, a resident and an employee, had come down with the virus. Now 60 are positive.

By NC Health News staff Outbreak in Orange County long term care facility Two people have already died from a COVID-19 outbreak in an Orange County skilled-nursing facility, with 60 sickened from the dangerous pathogen at the rehabilitation center, Gov. Roy Cooper said in a media briefing Wednesday. Seven other residents have been hospitalized and […]

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Lawmakers receive sobering coronavirus updates

April 3, 2020 by Rose Hoban

Lawmakers receive sobering coronavirus updates - North Carolina Health News

While lawmakers are still gathering information, they have been focused on helping regions and health systems address the coronavirus crisis.

By Rose Hoban Lawmakers on the health care working group of the House Select Committee on COVID-19 had another sobering meeting to collect information on the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic which has upended life across the globe. Working group co-chair Rep. Josh Dobson (R-Nebo) said the group is still trying to get their […]

Toni Henley says she is frustrated because her husband, Jeff, had to wait nearly a week to be tested for the COVID-19. Now he's being given hydroxychloroquine

Harnett County coronavirus patient now hospitalized, unproven drugs may be part of treatment

March 22, 2020 by Greg Barnes

Harnett County coronavirus patient now hospitalized, unproven drugs may be part of treatment - North Carolina Health News

Jeff Hensley, 57, started feeling ill on March 4, now his wife says he's being treated with hydroxychloroquine, an old drug that researchers hope will be a "hail Mary" treatment for coronavirus infection.

By Greg Barnes and Rose Hoban Update: Jeff Hensley returned home Sunday, according to a Facebook post his wife, Toni Hensley wrote. “[H]e is tired and weak and still short of breath but he will be recovering at home with his personal home nurse,” she wrote. A Harnett County man with the coronavirus has taken […]

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Coronavirus Today – Thursday, March 12

March 12, 2020 by Rose Hoban

Coronavirus Today – Thursday, March 12 - North Carolina Health News

As more patients were diagnosed with the novel virus, local, state and federal actors began making difficult decisions.

It was an extraordinary day in updates around the coronavirus outbreak in North Carolina: This morning, Gov. Roy Cooper, HHS Secretary Mandy Cohen and director of NC Emergency Management Mike Sprayberry convened the state’s Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Task Force, which had participants ranging from long-term care facilities and advocates for farmworkers to law enforcement and […]

Test for coronavirus (COVID-19) in padded box. Aside from handwashing and social distancing, there aren't many specific measures for coronavirus.

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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