Lucille Sherman and Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan, Raleigh News and Observer – Dr. Mandy Cohen, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and a fixture of the state’s coronavirus pandemic response, is stepping down from her job, according to a source in the legislature. ABC11, The News & Observer’s news partner, first reported that Cohen will resign. Cohen has served as the state health department’s secretary since 2017 and is part of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s Cabinet. She has been by his side for countless news briefings since the pandemic first reached the Old North State in March of 2020 and has been known in part for repeating the guidelines at the pandemic’s peak to “Wear, Wait, Wash,” known as the “three Ws” of safety precautions.

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