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Several changes were put into effect by NC Department of Health and Human Services this month after the national public health emergency ended May 11. NC pandemic response is changing. Here’s ...
May 26—TRIAD — The two most highly contagious variants of COVID-19 account for nearly all cases of the disease in North Carolina, but the indicators that state health officials monitor have ...
On February 11, Governor Roy Cooper announced the creation of a Novel Coronavirus Task Force for North Carolina and a state health department hotline. Co-chairs of the task force were Dr. Mandy Cohen, Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. Elizabeth Cuervo Tilson, North Carolina State Health Director and the Chief Medical Officer for the North Carolina ...
As the BA.5 subvariant causes a flurry of new cases, the CDC has updated its community levels map to include 41 counties with a high level — more than double the number last week.
On January 4, 2013, [25] North Carolina Governor-elect Pat McCrory swore in Aldona Wos as Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. [25] At the time, NCDHHS had around 18,000 employees and a budget of around $18 billion. [26] Wos declined her $128,000 salary and was instead paid a token $1. [27]
Mandy Krauthamer Cohen (born September 17, 1978) [1] is an American internist, public health official, and healthcare executive serving as the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since July 10, 2023.
Here’s what’s next for the state’s COVID-19 response.
At the beginning of the pandemic to early June 2020, Democratic-led states had higher case rates than Republican-led states, while in the second half of 2020, Republican-led states saw higher case and death rates than states led by Democrats. As of mid-2021, states with tougher policies generally had fewer COVID cases and deaths {needs update}.