By VICTORIA JOHNSON As vaccine eligibility widens in North Carolina, some Chatham vaccine providers say they hope to receive the single-shot J&J vaccines as soon as April. Last Friday, the White House COVID-19 task force announced that Johnson & Johnson was set to ship 11 million COVID-19 vaccine doses this week. The same day, the […]
By VICTORIA JOHNSON SILER CITY — Just off U.S Hwy. 64 on Harold Hart Road last Saturday, a line of cars began to wrap around St. Julia’s Catholic Church shortly after 10 a.m. There, a few yards behind the church, hundreds of Hispanic residents cracked open their windows, rolled up their sleeves and received their […]
By VICTORIA JOHNSON & HANNAH MCCLELLAN North Carolina will ease several mass gathering restrictions, Gov. Roy Cooper announced Tuesday, thanks to North Carolina’s improving COVID-19 metrics and accelerating vaccine rollout. The executive order will go into effect Friday, March 26 at 5 p.m. “North Carolina has done the work to slow the spread of this […]
By VICTORIA JOHNSON El Futuro’s Sabrina Aguilar-Simon almost decided against majoring in Spanish, her passion, while attending college in Ohio. She thought it wouldn’t be “practical.” “I thought that all you could really do with it was either teach or do research,” she said, “and I wasn’t really interested in either of those things.” Yet, […]
By VICTORIA JOHNSON Sabrina Aguilar-Simon de El Futuro casi decidió no especializarse en español, su pasión, mientras asistía al la universidad en Ohio. Ella pensó que no sería “útil”. “Pensé que todo lo que se podía hacer con él (español) era enseñar o investigar”, dijo, “y no estaba realmente interesada en ninguna de esas cosas’. […]
By VICTORIA JOHNSON SILER CITY — In early 2020, El Futuro’s mental health clinics offered primarily in-person services, save for a telehealth program they’d designed for farmworkers. Now, in early 2021, it’s just the opposite: Thanks to COVID-19, the non-profit has pivoted to offering telehealth services only, with little to no in-person exceptions. “If you […]
By VICTORIA JOHNSON As vaccine access expands in North Carolina, many Chatham employers have begun looking to get their workforces vaccinated as quickly as possible. To that end, several Chatham organizations came together for a webinar last Thursday to share some advice. The webinar — called the COVID-19 Vaccine Briefing for Chatham Employers — addressed […]
By VICTORIA JOHNSON Nota del editor: A medida que se disponga de más dosis de la vacuna anti-covid y cambie otra información sobre el acceso, es difícil mantenerse actualizado. El News & Record ofrece esta guía. Se actualizará en línea cuando salga nueva información. Desde mediados de diciembre, han surgido cinco proveedores de vacunas contra […]
By VICTORIA JOHNSON Editor’s note: As more COVID-19 vaccine doses become available and other information about access changes, it’s hard to stay current. The News & Record is offering this guide. It’ll be updated online as new information becomes available. Since mid-December, five COVID-19 vaccine providers have emerged in Chatham County. Within the county, Chatham […]
By ALIRIO ESTEVEZ Editor’s note: Alirio Estevez is an ESL teacher at Siler City Elementary School. He received his first dose of the Moderna vaccine last Friday with the Chatham County Public Health Department in Pittsboro. As he talked, I could picture my father struggling to supply oxygen to his lungs. He could hardly articulate […]