Pittsboro, NC – The Chatham County Public Health Department (CCPHD) will host a COVID-19 mass vaccination clinic on Monday, January 25, 2021, at the Chatham County Agriculture and Conference Center in Pittsboro. The event will focus on healthcare workers with…
By Kevin Roche Coronamonomania is alive and well. After over a year of dealing with this serious epidemic, you might imagine that we had learned how to minimize the overall toll from the epidemic itself and our response to it.…
By John Trump Raleigh, NC – State health secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen updated N.C. residents on COVID-19 vaccinations Thursday, January 21. She said the state is accelerating the rate in which people are vaccinated, so far administering more than 569,000,…
By John Hood Raleigh, NC – As of January 18, North Carolina had received about a million doses of COVID-19 vaccines. Nearly 330,000 of those doses had been injected into the arms of North Carolinians. That may sound like a…
Pittsboro, NC – The Chatham County Public Health Department (CCPHD) and several community partners worked together to vaccinate 400 individuals against COVID-19 on Monday, January 18, 2021, at the Chatham County Agriculture and Conference Center in Pittsboro. The mass vaccination…
By David N. Bass Raleigh, NC – A new national study says that it appears safe to reopen schools for in-person instruction in counties with lower rates of COVID-19 hospitalizations. The study, conducted by the National Center for Research on…
Pittsboro, NC – Chatham County is currently scheduling appointments and administering COVID-19 vaccines for individuals in Groups 1 and 2. The Chatham County Public Health Department has established a new infoline for people with questions about the COVID-19 vaccine, including…
By Kevin Roche Let me add one more general comment on what this country is becoming. A lot of others have made this point more articulately than I can, but if you try to suppress the speech of certain people…
By Kevin Roche The first paper deals with schools and their role in transmission and was published in the journal Pediatrics. (Ped. Article) The study looked at 11 school districts in North Carolina which had been open for 9 weeks of…
Pittsboro, NC – The Chatham County Public Health Department (CCPHD) is in the process of updating its COVID-19 vaccination plans to align with the new prioritization guidelines issued by the NC Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) today. This…