Pittsboro, NC – Weekly cases of COVID-19 are trending up in Chatham County, with the county reaching the High level of community transmission as determined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the week of January 5, 2023. Preliminary…
By Bryan Caplan Starting March 1, masks are optional for all K-12 students in Virginia public schools. That includes my daughter, who after a year and a half of homeschool decided to rejoin her friends in 4th grade. Since plenty…
By Donna King Raleigh, NC – It has been 450 days since Gov. Roy Cooper put North Carolina under a state-of-emergency order due to the COVID pandemic. State lawmakers are demanding concrete information on when it will end. On Tuesday,…
By Steve Murphy Raleigh, NC – Until we had vaccines, the age stratification of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths was pronounced and heavily weighted to the older (65+) population. In North Carolina, this age group contributed to over 70% of the…
By John Trump Raleigh, NC – It seems Gov. Roy Cooper doesn’t get out much, meaning outside North Carolina. A quick trip to South Carolina, for instance, would show a sense of freedom unavailable — from my experience — in…
By Kevin Roche Not much research, I am in the rare position of being largely caught up. So maybe a little recapitulation of the epidemic, which has gone on for over a year in this country. First a quick…
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 Here is the latest big picture on the coronavirus pandemic, which I do every now and then because there are new readers and there are occasional developments. The Pathogen. It is really hard to figure out…