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June 4, 2021 Transcript

This is Dr. Joe Pat Hatem, Mayor of the City of Southport. I would like to talk to you today concerning the COVID-19 pandemic.

The United States has reached a grim milestone of 600,000 deaths from COVID-19.

There have been 33 million cases and we mourn each death, we are grateful for every person who survived and we remember that for many, the lingering effects of their illness continues.

In reviewing months of data with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic in preparation for the Department of Medicine Meeting at Dosher Hospital of which I am chair, and as your Mayor, as an Emergency Room physician with a Master of Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I have evaluated the following:  a decline in COVID-19 cases in North Carolina from 6,487 on January 3, 2021 to 481 cases on June 3, 2021; in Brunswick County the first two weeks of January 2021 there were 1038 cases down to 98 cases the last two weeks of May; deaths in North Carol