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Tag: UNC Hospital

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

By North Carolina Health News staff COVID’s ascent in rural areas sheds light on longstanding disparities The pandemic may have begun in cities and population centers, but as the months wore on, it took hold in rural areas across the state in various ways. The first shockwaves of the pandemic in rural North Carolina began […]

shows a pink piggy bank wearing stethoscope and the listening end of the stethoscope is on a dollar bill, spending, money
Posted inCost of Care

How much will a hip replacement cost? UNC Health has a new estimator tool for that.

by Anne Blythe December 17, 2020January 27, 2021
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
Sheriff removes leg cuffs from a psychiatric patient after transporting the man from one hospital to another
Posted inMental Health

More NC psych patients are ending up handcuffed in a police car. Why?

by Taylor Knopf December 14, 2020November 15, 2022
mom and son standing on front porch
Posted inMental Health

Mental health patients fill the ER, waiting weeks for help

by Taylor Knopf October 13, 2020November 22, 2021
we see an industrial complex / poultry plant where multiple Latino workers have tested positive for COVID
Posted inHealth Inequities

Latino North Carolinians infected with COVID-19 ‘simply by going to work’

by Anne Blythe June 11, 2020January 29, 2021

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