Cooper extends NC stay-at-home order
BY DAWN BAUMGARTNER VAUGHAN, STEVE WISEMAN, JONATHAN M. ALEXANDER, AND WILL DORAN
APRIL 23, 2020 03:10 PM, UPDATED 35 MINUTES AGO
... Gov. Roy Cooper announced Thursday he is extending his stay-at-home order through May 8 ...
Dr. Mandy Cohen, the state’s Department of Health and Human Services secretary, ... said daily testing must grow .. to 5,000-7,000 ...
... Currently, the state has less than a 30-day supply of gowns and N95 masks ...
Dr. Mark McClellan, who .. now directs Duke’s Margolis Center for Health Policy, ... said, “places like North Carolina, even though we’ve had some significant spread of the virus and even though we’ve missed some of it because of asymptomatic cases and limited testing, my guess and a lot of expert epidemiologists best estimate is only a small share of people in North Carolina are actually immune — less than 10 percent. That means if we are going to think about reopening successfully we have to prepare for the possibility of the virus really being able to affect the vast majority of North Carolinians even after what we’ve been through already and we have to plan accordingly for that.”
“I think social distancing, in some form, is going to be with us for the foreseeable future” ...
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