Wednesday, August 3
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.
Wednesday, July 20
The News + Record asked Chatham Hospital’s Eric Wolak, who recently recovered from COVID-19, to share his experience.
Wednesday, July 20
The News + Record asked Josh Smith, who recently recovered from COVID-19, to share his experience.
Wednesday, July 13
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.
Wednesday, June 29
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.
Wednesday, May 25
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.”
Wednesday, April 20
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 …
Wednesday, April 20
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 …