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Quintana Stewart

Quintana Stewart became Orange County health director on December 18, 2017, chosen after a nationwide search from the Forsyth County Department of Public Health, where she had been assistant health director. She succeeded Colleen Bridger and came to the county with more than 16 years in public health.

Source: Chapelboro: Orange County Names New Health Director

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  1. Quintana Stewart becomes Orange County's health director After a nationwide search, the Orange County Board of Health chose Stewart, then assistant health director at the Forsyth County Department of Public Health. She started on December 18, 2017, succeeding Colleen Bridger, who had left in February 2017 for a post in San Antonio.Search the index · Chapelboro: Orange County Names New Health Director
  2. Orange County Health Department identifies the county's first COVID-19 cases The health department announced that Orange County residents had tested positive for COVID-19 at the State Laboratory of Public Health and were isolating at home. Health Director Quintana Stewart said the response was shifting from containment to mitigation. People: Penny Rich, Quintana StewartOrange County, NC: Orange County Identifies First Cases of COVID-19 (media release)
  3. Orange County and its three towns issue a joint stay-at-home order Orange County, with Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough, ordered residents to stay home except for essential needs from 6 p.m. on March 27, 2020, three days before the statewide order took effect. Set to run until April 30, it was extended to May 8 to match the state order. People: Penny Rich, Quintana StewartOrange County, NC: Orange County to institute Stay-at-home order effective Friday, March 27
  4. Orange County reports its first COVID-19 death The health department reported that a resident in their 70s under hospice care at PruittHealth-Carolina Point, one of two long-term care facilities with outbreaks, had died of COVID-19 complications. The county then had 104 confirmed cases, and PruittHealth had at least 86 positive cases among residents and staff. People: Quintana StewartOrange County, NC: Orange County Health Department Reporting First COVID-19 Associated Death (media release)
  5. Stewart receives the Chapel Hill-Carrboro chamber's citizenship and service award The Greater Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce gave Stewart its Duke Energy Citizenship and Service Award in 2021, during the county's COVID-19 vaccination campaign. She later received the Ron Levine Public Health Legacy Award in 2022 and a National Association of Counties award in 2025.Search the index · Chapelboro: Orange County Health Director Quintana Stewart Stepping Down; Interim Leader Named
  6. Health department vaccinates its first recipients at drive-through clinics By early January 2021 the Orange County Health Department had vaccinated about 1,000 Phase 1a personnel at drive-through clinics in Hillsborough and Chapel Hill and opened sign-ups for residents 75 and older, more than 4,200 of whom registered. People: Quintana StewartChapelboro: More Than 4,200 Register for Coronavirus Vaccinations in Orange County
  7. Orange County reinstates an indoor mask mandate As the delta variant spread, Orange County and the Towns of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough required masks inside buildings and businesses from 5 p.m. on August 11, 2021. People: Lydia Lavelle, Quintana Stewart, Jenn WeaverChapelboro: Orange, Chatham Counties Announce Indoor Mask Mandates Amid Renewed COVID Spread
  8. Orange County lifts its indoor mask mandate Orange County and its three towns ended the indoor mask requirement on March 7, 2022. UNC-Chapel Hill lifted its campus mandate the same day, and Orange County Schools planned to make masks optional on March 10. People: Quintana Stewart, Renée PriceChapelboro: Orange County Announces Plan to Lift Indoor Mask Mandate
  9. Orange County's COVID-19 state of emergency expires The county's COVID-19 emergency declaration, in force since March 13, 2020 and extended more than a dozen times, expired at 5 p.m. on May 1, 2022, making it the longest-running state of emergency in county history. People: Quintana StewartChapelboro: Orange County: COVID-19 State of Emergency Will Officially Expire

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Background on COVID-19 in Orange County, 2020–2022

Background reading on COVID-19 in Orange County, 2020–2022. These works cover the broader subject and may not discuss Quintana Stewart. Follow a link to find a copy or view the material.

Chronicles of the pandemic: Carolina Meadows, 2020-21

2021

Residents and staff of Carolina Meadows, a retirement community in Chapel Hill, record their experience of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 through poems, stories, memoirs, photographs and interviews. The volume was produced by the community in 2021 with the Southern Oral History Program at UNC. Subjects include older people's writings and the social life of retirement communities in Chapel Hill during the pandemic.

[#MaskUpOCNC posters]

2020 · Orange County Arts Commission

Seven posters from the Orange County Arts Commission's MaskUpOCNC campaign of 2020, made to encourage mask wearing in the county during the COVID-19 outbreak. The set is in color, in English or Spanish.

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Toxic campus map

Goldstein, Bob, 1967- · 2020 · Bob Goldstein

Artist's map of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus made by Bob Goldstein in 2020, screen printed in color and folded as a sculptural book in the Turkish map fold. Yellow dots scattered along the campus walking paths stand for the 1,112 people on campus with COVID-19 at one point that fall. Subjects include pictorial works for the pandemic in Chapel Hill.

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COVID-19 pandemic reflections : on the nation's first state university & its medical center and on the continuing education of a student of medicine

McLendon, William W. · 2021 · William M. McLendon

William W. McLendon's reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic as it touched the University of North Carolina and its medical center, written at Chapel Hill and last revised on May 23, 2021. McLendon, a physician, frames the piece as the continuing education of a student of medicine. Topics include Chapel Hill physicians and the history of the university hospitals.

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Office of University Communications records, 2009-2022

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Office of University Communications · 2009

Photographs and related files from the Office of University Communications at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009 to 2022, roughly 20,000 items in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40482. Topics include administration, faculty, staff and alumni, football and basketball, campus buildings, awards, public relations work, and the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 to 2023 in Chapel Hill.

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Bob Goldstein prints, 2004-2023

Goldstein, Bob, 1967- · 2004

Prints by Bob Goldstein, born 1967, made between 2004 and 2023, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40360. The posters concern Chapel Hill lectures, the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 to 2023 and the Department of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Archiving a Community In Crisis: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Archives' Carolina Covid-19 Collection

2024 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

An account of the Carolina Covid-19 Collection, the documentation effort the University Archives at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill built around the pandemic that began in 2020. Issued by the university in 2024.

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Emerging from the Covid crisis : where do we go from here?

Cohen, Mandy (Mandy K.) · 2022 · Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Mandy Cohen, who led the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services during the pandemic years, spoke on what came next at the Department of Public Policy in Chapel Hill on March 23, 2022. Twenty pages with color illustrations and portraits. Topics include COVID-19 in North Carolina and public health administration.

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Carolina COVID-19 archive, 2020-2022

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. University Archives and Record Service · 2020

Born digital material gathered by the University Archives and Records Service at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill documenting the COVID-19 pandemic on campus between 2020 and 2022. About 800 items totaling roughly 34.7 gigabytes, University Archives 70097. Topics include coronavirus infections, student activities, students, and university faculty through those pandemic years.

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Installation of Carolina's 12th chancellor : Sunday, October 11, 2020, 3 p.m., Memorial Hall : Kevin Guskiewicz, twelfth chancellor

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 2020 · The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Program for the installation of Kevin Guskiewicz as the twelfth chancellor of UNC Chapel Hill, held in Memorial Hall on Sunday, October 11, 2020, at three in the afternoon. Eight unnumbered pages with color portraits, published by the university.

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