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Sunday, April 05, 2020
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The Daily Advance this week will introduce expanded editions on Friday and Sunday as part of temporary measures necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
More Sentara Medical Group patients are seeing their doctor on their computer screen or getting medical advice over the phone in an effort to decrease the spread of the coronavirus.
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A local education leader says children need honest, accurate information about the coronavirus but parents should try to keep them from being overwhelmed by the nonstop flood of information about the disease.
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It’s an image that residents in northeastern North Carolina typically are used to seeing only online or on their nightly TV newscasts:
Saturday, April 04, 2020
A Hertford County resident has died from COVID-19, the second person in the region to succumb to the novel coronavirus, the area’s health department reported Saturday.
Because of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, there was a period of adjustment last month for golf courses from across the nation on how to proceed.
The Carolinas Golf Association, a amateur golf organization that oversees events in North Carolina and South Carolina, released an open letter Saturday on social distancing and proper etiquette during the noval coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic:
At the time, 7:34 p.m. seemed like a normal tip-off time for then Elizabeth City State head men’s basketball coach Dr. Claude Mackey for the contest on January 18, 1990.
GREENVILLE, S.C. – Conference Carolinas officially released its baseball all-conference team on Friday.
EDENTON — The Edenton Steamers have announced the third group of players that will be joining this year’s squad including Jacob Arizpe and Coleton Barnes of Shorter University and Trevor Kirk of the Elon University.
NORFOLK, Va. — Old Dominion women’s basketball head coach Nikki McCray was named Virginia Sports Information Directors State Coach of the Year while Taylor Edwards was tabbed to the First Team All-State.
Opinion
Sunday, April 05, 2020
In our state, Lt. Gov. Dan Forrest held a news conference questioning the validity of the governor’s ban on in-restaurant dining and bars stating this “will devastate our economy.”
Since the founding of the very first chamber of commerce in 1599, chambers have always sought to build and support their local businesses and communities. Now, in the time of a global pandemic, eastern North Carolina’s local chambers of commerce are working collaboratively to help their members survive and thrive during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As a medical student and J Bradley Wilson Schweitzer Fellow, I am partnering with the James D. Bernstein Dental Clinic, a Federally Qualified Health Center, to help treat patients as a whole, not just the disease. Sitting in the dental clinic with a patient, I asked him if he’s ever talked to anyone about his needs concerning food, transportation and housing. He looked at me and replied, “They go by the book, and the book doesn’t know me.” I was surprised at first, and I later realized that this patient’s comment echoes an issue that we as current and future health care providers must address directly.
I woke up the morning of March 25 and picked up the paper just looking for any small piece of happiness in this time of a worldwide pandemic.
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Lost in the uproar over Elizabeth City city councilors’ recent decision to award themselves $500-a-month raises was another poor decision that could be even more costly to city residents over time.
Saturday, April 04, 2020
COVID-19 took away spring break from college students — or at least it tried to. Even though most colleges in North Carolina extended their spring breaks, students were encouraged to social distance, and even forced to quarantine in some cases, due to the coronavirus. Being stuck inside is not how college students envision their spring break. However, not all college students took the advice of the news reports, politicians and health experts.
Features
Sunday, April 05, 2020
Museum of the Albemarle’s doors may be currently closed to the public, but MOA staff continue our work!
Saturday, April 04, 2020
With many churches holding online-only services to prevent the spread of COVID-19, many people worshiped last Sunday with the help of either a laptop, tablet or phone.
Having healthcare providers going from the front lines of treating coronavirus patients to the front of the COVID-19 testing line is a major concern for officials at Sentara Albemarle Medical Center in Elizabeth City.
Friday, April 03, 2020
When I heard that country singer Joe Diffie had died from COVID 19 I thought I had heard it wrong.
”Go into the village opposite you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, on which no one yet has ever sat; untie it and bring it here. .... Those who went in front and those who followed were shouting: ‘Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord; ble…
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