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PITTSBORO — COVID-19 cases are on the rise again in Chatham County, according to a statement released by the Chatham County Public Health Department (CCPHD) last week.
The Centers for …
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BY TAYLOR HEEDEN, News + Record Staff
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1/18/23
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PITTSBORO — Los casos semanales de COVID-19 tienen una tendencia al alza en el condado de Chatham, y el condado alcanzó el nivel alto de transmisión comunitaria según lo determinado por …
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Departamento de Salud Pública del Condado de Chatham
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1/12/23
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PITTSBORO — 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 …
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From Chatham County Public Health Department
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1/12/23
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If there’s growing vaccine hesitancy among parents in some pockets of the U.S., data suggests that’s not necessarily true in Chatham County — where child immunization rates remain …
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BY BILL HORNER III, Publisher
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1/4/23
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MEASLES
The Disease
Measles is a respiratory disease caused by a virus. The disease of measles and the virus that causes it share the same name. The disease is also called rubeola. Measles …
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1/4/23
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New COVID case counts continue to drop — down 25% the last two weeks across the U.S., and trending down since mid-July — and more discussions center around whether the pandemic is “under control.”
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BY BILL HORNER III, Publisher
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10/12/22
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PITTSBORO — The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS) has reported Chatham County’s first confirmed case of monkeypox.
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From Chatham County Public Health Department
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9/29/22
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Following the authorization of the updated boosters, Chatham County’s Public Health Director Mike Zelek said his department is now offering Moderna’s updated booster shot to those who want them.
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BY TAYLOR HEEDEN, News + Record Staff
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9/14/22
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Mike Zelek, the director of the Chatham County Public Health Department, says there’s a lot of COVID out there.
And that’s not just because the number of N.C. counties with “high” COVID-19 community levels has jumped from less than a dozen a few weeks ago to more than 60 today.
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BY BILL HORNER III, Publisher
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8/3/22
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The News + Record asked Chatham Hospital’s Eric Wolak, who recently recovered from COVID-19, to share his experience.
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7/20/22
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The News + Record asked Josh Smith, who recently recovered from COVID-19, to share his experience.
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As the number of COVID-19 cases rises in some pockets of the country — a surprising summer surge driven in part by new variants — is keeping Chatham County in the “high” transmission level.
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CN+R STAFF REPORTS
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7/13/22
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Now that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention is recommending COVID-19 vaccines for children up to 5 years old, Chatham’s health experts are encouraging parents to seriously consider it as a “critical line of defense” against the virus.
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BY BILL HORNER III, Publisher
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6/29/22
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As the nation’s death toll from the pandemic surpassed 1 million, local health officials mourned what Eric Wolak, the chief operating officer and chief nursing officer at Chatham Hospital in Siler City, called “a heart-breaking milestone.”
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BY BILL HORNER III, Publisher
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5/25/22
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ON MASKING
A Florida federal judge on Monday voided the national mask mandate covering public transportation — including airlines, trains, buses, subway and ride-sharing vehicles — that was …
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BY BILL HORNER III, Publisher
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4/20/22
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A new surge in COVID-19 cases after a two-month decline may be more significant than it appears because of the rise in home testing, but it’s mostly all quiet on Chatham County’s case count …
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BY BILL HORNER III, Publisher
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4/20/22
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For the past month, lay health advisor Maria Herrera has spent over six hours each week knocking on doors in Love’s Creek to share COVID-19 information, resolve doubts and help her neighbors get vaccinated.
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BY VICTORIA JOHNSON, News + Record Staff
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3/23/22
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North Carolina and Chatham County have taken on the pandemic by using various mitigation tools — such as vaccinations, accessibility to testing and lowered isolation periods for COVID positive patients — and are now shifting focus on learning to live with COVID-19, rather than complete eradication of the virus.
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BY TAYLOR HEEDEN, News + Record Staff
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3/23/22
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As the COVID-19’s Omicron surge fades and mask mandates ease, Chatham’s vaccination rates lag behind overall rates across North Carolina — and vaccine demand has trickled to “very low,” according to county health officials.
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BY BILL HORNER III, Publisher
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3/9/22
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Editor’s note: Burney Waring, the president of the local nonprofit Innovate Chatham, is a global consulting engineer who studies trends and data. He shared this look at COVID-19 risks for children …
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3/2/22
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