It’s a matter of how do we find that balance, help folks understand where each of us is coming from.”
“Understand that people have different viewpoints of the world. “We need to find the solutions that are right for North Carolina,” she said in a July 2020 interview. Her approach has been basic and unvarnished. While certainly not what Cohen would want or be satisfied with, given the impediments and lack of cooperation her agency received from the legislative leadership, that record is no small accomplishment. More than 70% of the state’s population has had at least one vaccine dose – ranking 22nd in the nation and 54% are fully vaccinated. Regardless of the legislative jawboning, today the state has outperformed all neighbors except Virginia in getting people vaccinated. She was direct.Īmid the criticism there were not questions asking what actions and resources she might need to do better. Cohen didn’t shirk, smirk or dodge her accountability. This past January, during a particularly testy legislative hearing, Cohen maintained her poise amid legislators’ rants and finger-pointing over shortcomings in initial COVID vaccination efforts. Her cool under pressure captured the news media notice. Representative from western North Carolina who’d later become President Donald Trump’s final chief of staff. In 2014 an eight-months pregnant Cohen worked for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and was being badgered in a congressional hearing on Obamacare by Mark Meadows – then a Republican U.S. She is empathetic with the North Carolinians she served – a mom of two daughters who were recently featured in a video about their experience getting COVID vaccines.Ĭohen’s knowledge and poise shouldn’t surprise anyone. She's knowledgeable about her work – she’s an internal medicine physician and has been involved in public health care policy on the federal and state level for years.
She honestly shared empathy with millions of other North Carolinians like her whose children’s lives were tossed topsy-turvy, whose parents found themselves in sudden risk and whose own personal and professional lives were turned upside down.
Cohen has been a source of verifiably reliable information and common-sense direction and advice.
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