North Carolina hospitals filling with COVID-19 patients and plead for public's help to turn tide [View all]
With their rooms and wards filling with COVID-19 patients, hospitals across North Carolina are pleading with the public to help curb the spread of the coronavirus.
The leaders of Duke, UNC, WakeMed, Atrium, Novant Health and two dozen other hospitals and hospital systems released a joint letter Wednesday urging people to get vaccinated and take other steps to help bring the disease under control.
“With COVID-19 spreading like wildfire, your personal decisions about how to coexist with the virus directly affect the health and well-being of your family and community,” the letter reads. “Our best chance of returning to living healthy, normal lives is to make sure our families, friends and work colleagues are choosing to be vaccinated and getting their recommended booster shots.”
North Carolina saw record-breaking numbers of COVID-19 patients for the second straight day Wednesday, passing 4,000 for the first time since the pandemic’s began in the spring of 2020.
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(Raleigh News & Observer)
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