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shows trend lines for COVID-like illnesses in the emergency departments higher than in prior years, but decreasing overall
Posted inInfectious Disease

Coronavirus Today – May 5 – Cooper eases restrictions as of Friday, reporting on nursing home, meat processor outbreaks

by Editor May 5, 2020November 25, 2022
The Smithfield Food's hog-processing plant in Tar Heel appeared to be operating as usual on Tuesday, April 28, 2019. Photo credit Greg Barnes
Posted inInfectious Disease

Smithfield’s largest slaughterhouse struggling to contain virus

by Greg Barnes May 1, 2020April 30, 2020
The Smithfield Foods processing plant in Tar Heel employs up to 5,000 workers and slaughters 30,000 to 35,000 hogs a day: Photo credit: Melissa Sue Garrets, The Fayetteville Observer
Posted inInfectious Disease

Two more processing plants identified as having coronavirus outbreaks

by Greg Barnes April 24, 2020April 9, 2021
A woman holds a microphone for a man, both of them are North Carolina officials who are talking about coroanvirus at a press conference.
Posted inInfectious Disease

Coronavirus Today – Friday, March 13

by Editor March 13, 2020October 25, 2022
The Appalachian Mountains near the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina may benefit from the ARC's recovery ecosystem model. The area has a quickly growing outbreak of COVID-19
Posted inRural Health

New dollars target opioid misuse, workforce revitalization in WNC

by Liora Engel-Smith September 11, 2019September 12, 2019
Posted inMedicaid

Budget impasse delays Initial Nov. 1 rollout of Medicaid managed care

by Sarah Ovaska September 4, 2019April 13, 2021

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