Mandy Cohen Coverage

CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen visits Triangle to celebrate 'Match Day' with UNC medical students

Dr. Cohen is in the Triangle to celebrate "Match Day" with students at the UNC School of Medicine and talk with them about the importance of building a strong health workforce.

WRAL staff

Dr. Cohen visits UNC School of Medicine students to speak about importance of strong health workforce

Dr. Mandy Cohen, the CDC Director in Atlanta, is back in the Triangle for Match Day. She'll be talking with students at the UNC School of Medicine.

At CDC, Mandy Cohen seeks to foster trust in a battered agency

"I'm not just the CDC director, I'm also a mom," she said cheerily, noting on live television that her daughters, 9 and 11, had already received the latest COVID and flu shots.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times

'Game changer': CDC's Dr. Mandy Cohen visits NC to talk drug costs, rural health

Dr. Mandy Cohen, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was in North Carolina on Friday bringing attention to efforts to expand access to health care in rural areas and lower prescription drug costs.

Destinee Patterson, WRAL reporter

As kids head back to school, COVID-19 booster targets new variant

A new COVID-19 booster shot is set to roll out across the country next month.

Keenan Willard, WRAL eastern North Carolina reporter

Biden taps NC's Mandy Cohen for top role as next CDC director

President Joe Biden intends to appoint Dr. Mandy Cohen to lead the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the White House confirmed exclusively to CNN, succeeding Dr. Rochelle Walensky in the critical public health role as the agency grapples with challenges in the aftermath of the pandemic.

By Betsy Klein, CNN

Editorial: Pick of Cohen to lead CDC stresses consensus over confrontation

Monday, June 5, 2023 -- Amid the lies, deliberate misinformation and opportunistic political positioning during the COVID crisis, Dr. Mandy Cohen was a regular, knowledgeable and reassuring presence in North Carolina. While some voices from the state legislature and the White House sought to foment distrust, Cohen rose above them.

From NC to CDC: Sources say Mandy Cohen named to top job

Sources tell WRAL News that Dr. Mandy Cohen, who was North Carolina's secretary of Health and Human Services through the COVID-19 pandemic, is expected to be named to lead the CDC.

Sources: NC's Mandy Cohen is Biden's pick to lead CDC

When Rochelle Walensky steps down at the end of the month as head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a face familiar to North Carolinians will step into that leadership role.

WRAL News

Former NCDHHS secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen announces new job

Dr. Mandy Cohen, who recently stepped down as secretary at the state Department of Health and Human Services, has announced her next steps.

Kody Kinsley sworn in as NC DHHS secretary

Dr. Mandy Cohen, the secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Services who quickly became the public face of North Carolina's response to COVID-19, is stepping down. Her successor, Kody Kinsley, was sworn in as DHHS Secretary on Saturday at noon, just in time for the new year.

On The Record: Mandy Cohen reflects on COVID's impact on NC

NCDHHS Secretary Mandy Cohen reflects on her role as the state's guiding light through the COVID pandemic as she prepares to leave her post.

Cohen: Omicron is here and spreading quickly

According to Dr. Mandy Cohen, North Carolina secretary of Health and Human Services, the majority of major hospitals across the state are already finding cases of omicron.

In final briefing before stepping down, Cohen urges people to get booster shots

Gov. Roy Cooper and state health and safety officials provide a Dec. 14, 2021, update on the coronavirus pandemic in North Carolina and the state's response to it.

Full interview: Cohen discusses NC's battle with coronavirus

Dr. Mandy Cohen, outgoing secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Services, discusses the highs and lows of her final two years on the job, during which she became the public face of North Carolina's pandemic response.

Cohen 'grateful' for chance to help guide NC through pandemic

To many in North Carolina, Dr. Mandy Cohen, the secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Services, will forever be "the three W's lady." And that's just fine with her.

Lena Tillett, WRAL anchor/reporter

Mandy Cohen talks omicron variant and North Carolina's strategy on handling COVID

The legislature committee on COVID spending will hear from and ask questions of Gov. Cooper's administration, including Dr. Mandy Cohen.

Editorial: Dr. Mandy Cohen's legacy - Leadership to emulate

Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021 -- North Carolina Secretary of Health and Human Resources Dr. Mandy Cohen's legacy and lessons in how to confront a monumentally difficult task and assert leadership -- particularly in a crisis with the direst of consequences and the bitterest of disagreement over what should be done and how - should never fade. She's done her job with the kind of effectiveness and finesse that must, and will, live as an example to emulate for other state leaders -- current and future.

Cohen says time right to pass baton in NC's fight against coronavirus

Dr. Mandy Cohen, the secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Services who quickly became the public face of North Carolina's response to COVID-19, is stepping down.

Cohen discusses decision to step down, praises successor

Gov. Roy Cooper and state health and safety officials provide a Nov. 30, 2021, update on the coronavirus pandemic in North Carolina and the state's response to it.

Dr. Mandy Cohen successor Kody Kinsley sworn in as DHHS secretary

Dr. Mandy Cohen, the secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Services who quickly became the public face of North Carolina's response to COVID-19, is stepping down.

Matt Talhelm, WRAL reporter & Jessica Patrick, WRAL senior multiplatform producer

Editorial: What do the COVID numbers say? Get vaccinated!

Thursday, July 22, 2021 -- Heed the advice of the Gov. Roy Cooper and Secretary of Health and Human Resources Dr. Mandy Cohen: For the health and safety of ALL those in school and classroom settings - particularly inside elementary school and middle school facilities -- everyone should wear masks even if adults or students 12 and older have been fully vaccinated. The fastest way to suspend the safety and health restrictions is to end the need. The quickest way to do that is for EVERYONE to get vaccinated.

Dr. Mandy Cohen throws first pitch at Durham Bulls home opener

A fitting first pitch for the Durham Bulls who are back in action in front of a home crowd tonight for the first time in more than a year.

Dr. Mandy Cohen: No excuses: Vaccines are close by, available without appointment

More than half of North Carolina adults have had at least one shot of COVID-19 vaccine, the state Department of Health and Human Services announced on Thursday.

Cohen discusses stopping shots of J&J vaccine

Dr. Mandy Cohen, secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Services, discusses the decision to stop administering the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine.