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a hand holds a glass globe, flipping the reflection of a sunset over the beach

2021: COVID still looms large

by Editor January 4, 2021January 26, 2021

This 2017 image, depicted the right hand of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientist, placing the samples into a cold-storage environment within the laboratory setting.

Infectious Disease

Coronavirus Today – Dec. 3 More grim NC milestones; Explainer on COVID-19 vaccine distribution; ‘No COVID virus in the vaccine itself’

by Anne Blythe December 3, 2020October 27, 2022

Shows the windowed wall of an ICU room containing a COVID patient. You can only see the patient's feet. This could be someone with a disability.

Infectious Disease

‘Breakthrough finding’ points to why certain COVID patients die

by KFF Health News November 15, 2020January 27, 2021

Urban Ministries Center's leaders took a desolate area beyond Charlotte's Uptown and turned it into a supportive apartment community for people transitioning from homelessness.

Health Inequities

Housing instability exacerbates the pandemic for the most vulnerable

by Melba Newsome November 12, 2020January 27, 2021

shows three elderly people playing bingo.

Coronavirus Today – June 15 – Mandatory face masks?; a lesson in virus spread; hurricane relief amid pandemic

by Editor June 15, 2020October 27, 2022

Infectious Disease

With more questions than answers, hydroxychloroquine still under the microscope

by Anne Blythe June 4, 2020June 4, 2020