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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, 2022August 31, 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 […]

Muhammad Siddiqui sitting in a garden with lot of colorful flowers to the left of him.
Posted inInfectious Disease

Their father survived 9/11, but could not beat COVID

by Mariama Jallow October 13, 2021April 1, 2022
shows a pair of gloved hands handling a syringe of COVID vaccine, you can read the name "Moderna" on the vial
Posted inInfectious Disease

An in-depth look at COVID-19 vaccine questions: Effects of the shot

by Carolina Public Press February 13, 2021April 13, 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
A hospital building in Charlotte which says Atrium.
Posted inHospitals

Atrium combines with Wake Forest Baptist and its medical school

by Liora Engel-Smith October 12, 2020October 13, 2020
shows a man sneezing, potentially spreading a respiratory virus. Flu symptoms include sneezing, cough, fever and aches.
Posted inInfectious Disease

Ahh-choo! Flu season hits hard in North Carolina

by Sarah Ovaska January 9, 2020April 12, 2021

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