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Tag: PPE

shows an Black woman in a black dress, white coat and facemask standing in a medical exam room.
Posted inHealthcare Workers

A doc recounts her year on the front lines of the COVID pandemic

by Melba Newsome April 6, 2021April 6, 2021

This story is supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and co-published by NC Health News, the Charlotte Post and the Charlotte Observer. By Melba Newsome Melissa James can still recall meeting her first coronavirus patient. A woman– probably in her mid-30s–came to the Southpark office in late February complaining of […]

shows two women in aprons, gloves, masks and goggles opening up a cardboard box filled with vaccines
Posted inInfectious Disease

Coronavirus Today – Dec. 15 – Vaccine distribution war room; Pfizer allotments are here; Federal allotment scheduling trouble

by Anne Blythe December 15, 2020October 26, 2022
shows the back of a wheelchair, with an old and wizened hand on the arm of the chair
Posted inAging

COVID-free nursing homes fought hard to keep virus out

by Thomas Goldsmith November 19, 2020November 18, 2020
photo shows three older people with masks standing and talking outside a white tent where someone else sits ready to help with voting
Posted inAging

How do you vote if you live in a nursing home? It can be complicated.

by Rose Hoban October 6, 2020October 5, 2020
Shows the brightly colored "windseeker" ride at Carowinds, where red seats suspended from a blue column swirl high in the air.
Posted inInfectious Disease

Coronavirus Today – Sep 30 Bars, movie theaters, amusement parks reopening; NC stable but warning signs of spikes; Swing state with COVID-19

by Anne Blythe September 30, 2020October 27, 2022
Door to a unit inside a jail. Jail suicides and overdoses are on the rise across the state. The counties may not have enough resources to fight COVID-19.
Posted inPrison Health

COVID outbreak worsens at Pitt County Jail

by Hannah Critchfield September 11, 2020September 12, 2020

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