Claire Donnelly
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 Literture and Spanish. Claire is originally from Richmond, Virginia. In her free time, Claire likes listening to podcasts and trying out new recipes.
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Mecklenburg County's health department is competing with governments and private companies across the U.S. to buy a limited supply of at-home COVID-19 tests as demand for testing surges.
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If Charlotte and Mecklenburg County residents test positive for COVID-19, they will probably not receive a call from a contact tracer. Instead, they will get a text message with instructions for how to do their own contact tracing.
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The omicron variant of the coronavirus has pushed the number of people in the hospital with COVID-19 in North Carolina and in Mecklenburg County to new record highs.
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Workers at COVID-19 testing sites are scrambling to keep up amid a spike in demand and recent rising tensions against staff and people in line.
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There’s a movement to take a more natural and environmentally-friendly approach to burials. One Charlotte funeral director is advancing the cause.
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Atrium Health said it has offered “career transition services” to its workers who refused to follow Atrium's COVID-19 vaccine policy. A spokesperson decline to say whether the employees had been fired.
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Months after a new health care price transparency rule went into effect, some North Carolina hospitals failed to show full compliance. Now, nearly a full year under the new rule, leaders from those hospitals say they are fully following the policy, but regulators have not publicly released information to show these hospitals are indeed in good standing.
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The city of Charlotte stopped turning off water service for nonpayment at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. But that moratorium ended in early October, and the city has since shut water off for at least 800 households.
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The hotel costs the county roughly $300,000 per month to operate and only one person was staying there as of Tuesday, county health director Gibbie Harris said.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicts North Carolina will see a 43% jump in overdose deaths compared to 2020. Overdose deaths have spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic.