The Wilkes County commissioners, acting in their capacity as the Wilkes Department of Social Services board, voted unanimously on June 6 to name Kevin L. Brown the agency’s director.
For many vaccinated people, images of crowded emergency rooms have invoked anger. Some would like to see people who have been vaccinated and wearing masks get priority medical treatment at hospitals. They say just as hospitals routinely triage patients, why not include vaccination status as one of the factors in that triage?