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Around day 60, doctors asked the couple to sign a “do not resuscitate” order. They declined. And Reggie still refused to die.
For 95 days, Reginald Jacques refused to die.
But on the 96th day, Sept. 19, 2016, something felt wrong. Ruth Jacques surrendered to an irresistible impulse to hold her son after a day’s work for an Orange County social services agency. “I was driving the car like a madwoman,” Jacques said of her early evening trip to the hospital.
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Sixty-one percent of North Carolina counties have COVID-19 transmission that is too high for in-person learning at all grade levels, based on guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The ABC11 I-team compared the guidelines to the latest COVID-19 metrics in North Carolina and found only two counties qualify for K-12 schools to fully reopen for in-person teaching.
This finding contradicts with state lawmakers announcement on Wednesday regarding a bill that will fully reopen public elementary schools for in-person learning. People are getting tired and politicians are ready to try to normalize things by saying we re ready for fully school instruction and I think we need to really, really caution and take care of our people because we don t want higher community transmission because schools are reopening, said Natalie Beyer, a Durham Public Schools board member and a member of Public Schools of North Carolina.