Going into the new year, it seemed the family was done with COVID-19. We just rode out our quarantine, said Nickey Stamey, 41. I was, by far, the most symptomatic, but everybody else, the three guys did really well. We did our quarantine and went on with our lives.
On Dec. 28, they were finished with quarantine, and all seemed in the clear. I don t know, I didn t have like this deep sense of fear, she said.
Most of her concern was for her 73-year-old father. She had just lost her mother to COVID-19 on Dec. 8. Getting COVID on the heels of my mother having just died from it, I was very concerned for my father, Stamey said. I wasn’t as concerned for my husband and son, because they were not symptomatic and they seemed to be faring very well.
AVL adds nonstop flight to Destin-Fort Walton Beach
Nonstops flights from Asheville to Destin, Florida are starting May 27, Allegiant Air announced Feb. 9.
The route from Asheville Regional Airport to Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport will operate twice weekly, with details at Allegiant.com.
This access to the Panhandle area of Florida rounds out the airport s nonstop access in Florida, where it already has six other direct flight routes, said Asheville Regional Airport spokeswoman Tina Kinsey. If you look at a map, you see dots from Asheville to Florida.all along the coastlines, but what has been missing is a dot in that panhandle location, she said. Now we will see that dot there.
A new laboratory unveiled Dec. 10 in Arden is promising faster turnaround times for Western North Carolina s COVID-19 tests and dedicating 10% of its capacity to free tests for rural and underserved communities.
Sanesco International and Dogwood Health Trust unveiled the new CommunityLab at Sanesco s headquarters on Trident Drive, the result of their partnership and a $3.5 million loan that Dogwood helped facilitate for the company.
The diagnostic lab will receive tests from around Western North Carolina to support the COVID-19 demand in the region, according to an announcement.
CommunityLab will also operate a mobile testing unit that will provide testing and same-day results open to anyone, regardless of symptoms.