Pittsboro, NC – The Chatham County Public Health Department is committed to making sure everyone who wants to get the COVID-19 vaccine can get it when it is their turn. The health department is in the process of scheduling COVID-19 vaccine…
By Andrew Dunn Raleigh, NC – Transmission of the COVID-19 virus has been “extremely limited” in public schools that have reopened in North Carolina, a team of researchers from Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill have found. A new study published…
By Kevin Roche Lest you think the media isn’t determined to create as much hysteria as it can and turn a blind eye to developments in one state while praising another, even though the outcomes are the same, look at…
By Andrew Dunn Raleigh, NC – Stay home. Wear a mask at all times. Don’t interact with anyone outside your household. If you do, get tested for COVID-19, N.C. Secretary of Health and Human Services Dr. Mandy Cohen has directed…
Pittsboro, NC – Mike Zelek, Chatham County Public Health Director, has issued the following update on the distribution of COVID-19 vaccine in the county: “The Chatham County Public Health Department has received a great deal of interest in the COVID-19…
By Kevin Roche The title is self-explanatory and obvious for anyone who looks at case charts. I would encourage you to look at California in particular, which has been stringently locked down for a long time. But here is some…
By Kevin Roche It should be obvious to anyone who looks at charts of cases and levels of mask wearing or presence of mask mandates that virus collection devices do nothing to limit community spread of CV-19, absolutely nothing. But…
By Kevin Roche I have typically taken the risk at the end of each year of making a few predictions about what I thought some significant developments in health care might be. My accuracy was pretty typical of most so-called…
Pittsboro, NC – As 2020 turns into 2021, the Chatham County Public Health Department (CCPHD) is hard at work sharing information and updates about the COVID-19 vaccine and giving the vaccine to those in the first priority group like healthcare…
By Kevin Roche It is Christmas week, and even for many non-Christians, this is a big holiday time. It is the winter solstice, the time when the darkness begins to fade away and the light grows. It is a time…