Claire Donnelly
Health Reporter & Host of FAQ City Podcast
Claire Donnelly is WFAE's health reporter. She previously worked at NPR member station KGOU in Oklahoma and also interned at WBEZ in Chicago and WAMU in Washington, D.C. She holds a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University and attended college at the University of Virginia, where she majored in Comparative Literature and Spanish. Claire is originally from Richmond, Virginia.
Reach her at cdonnelly@wfae.org or on Twitter @donnellyclairee.
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North Carolina health officials say providers that have the ability can start giving COVID-19 vaccines to all health care workers and any residents 65 and older. -
The directive, issued Tuesday, encouraged all county residents to stay home except for essential activities for the next three weeks in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
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North Carolina could start vaccinating residents ages 65 and older under new federal guidance announced by the Trump administration on Tuesday. The federal government said it is no longer holding back second doses of the vaccine and is urging states to provide shots to anyone 65 and older.
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We get it: Recycling can be confusing. Do you keep the bottle caps on plastic water bottles or take them off? Should you break down cardboard boxes before putting them in the bin? What about office paper with staples? Do you have to take the staples out?
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Atrium Health received its first shipments of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 14. Since then, the hospital system has invited about 33,380 health care workers in Phase 1a to get the shot. But only about half have scheduled a vaccine appointment.
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Residents across the Charlotte region flocked to vaccination sites Wednesday, maxing out capacity as residents 75 and older start getting the COVID-19 vaccination.
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North Carolina's first COVID-19 field hospital starts accepting patients on Wednesday. The 30-bed facility is designed to ease the strain on hospitals in the western part of the state.
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Mecklenburg and Gaston Counties will begin vaccinating people 75 and older for COVID-19 starting on Wednesday and Friday, respectively. Residents must make an appointment and slots are limited.
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North Carolina health officials said on Monday that they are watching for new strains of the coronavirus in the state.
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North Carolina Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy Cohen said she asked Charlotte-based hospital system Atrium Health to follow the state's COVID-19 vaccine prioritization plan. Last week, an Atrium spokesperson said the system was offering vaccination appointments to non-frontline workers after first offering them to patient-facing employees.
