Editor s note: This is an updated version of the story. The time and location for a blood drive was incorrect in the original.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there has been a national shortage on blood and blood donations. Restrictions placed on certain donors hasn t helped but health officials recently made a change, an official said.
Cape Fear Valley Health began seeing their blood supply start to dwindle in March 2020 due to the implementation of social distancing and the cancellation of blood drives. The supply level locally has been at critical, meaning less than a two-day supply, since February, according to Lindsey Graham, spokeswoman for Cape Fear Valley Health.
I didn’t realize I wouldn’t see my best friend for over a year. I didn’t realize just how bad this year would be for her, and how helpless I’d feel hundreds of miles away.
During more than 40 years of friendship, we’ve helped each other through two marriages and her terrifying battle with cancer.
Faith was diagnosed with blood cancer in her 40s. It devastated me, and it almost killed her. We did a whole lot of praying and crying, wondering why bad things happen to such good people. Since then, we’ve called or seen each other almost every day.
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Cumberland County officials have taken steps to make sure the homeless community isn t left behind in its vaccine rollout.
County health officials starting planning on how best to vaccinate the homeless in December, Health Director Jennifer Green said. Much of the work has been done in collaboration with local agencies who already help the community.
When the pandemic started, Green said those who help the homeless were among the first to ask that they not be forgotten. As planning ensued, one of the first things officials at the Health Department considered was access for the homeless, she said. They worked with those who initially stepped up to help develop a plan that worked, she said.
SANFORD Lee County has been picked as the home of a new biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility that s expected to create 325 new jobs.
Gov. Roy Cooper announced Tuesday that pharmaceutical manufacturer Abzena will open a state-of-the-art facility as part of a $213 million investment into the area.
The announcement comes after the state approved an incentives package worth over $6.9 million, paid over 12 years.
In order for Abzena to receive that full sum, the company must hit certain job creation and investment targets. The jobs created by the new facility are expected to generate more than $45 million in new state tax revenue over those 12 years and the project as a whole is expected to grow the state s economy by $1.5 billion, Cooper s office said.