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.
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.
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.
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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