How to watch NC Gov. Cooper’s briefing on Cohen departure, COVID omicron variant

Brooke Cain
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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper will hold a press conference today to address the latest on the COVID-19 omicron variant and the departure of the head of his coronavirus task force.

Dr. Mandy Cohen, the state’s Department of Health and Human Services secretary, is stepping down from her position.

Cohen has been in the job since 2017 and has been an integral part of Cooper’s COVID response initiatives. In 2020, Cohen was named The News & Observer’s Tar Heel of the Year for that work.

How to watch Gov. Cooper’s press conference

Today’s news briefing will start at 3 p.m.

The briefing can be streamed live at ncdps.gov/news-conference. It will be delivered in English, Spanish and American Sign Language.

In the Triangle area, news stations ABC11, CBS 17 and WRAL will televise the press conference, but typically switch to streaming for the Q&A portion. Spectrum News usually airs the entire press conference. Those outlets, along with PBS NC, will also stream the briefing on their websites and news apps.

The governor’s office also shares the livestreams on his official Twitter and Facebook accounts.

If you can’t watch or stream, you can listen live on WPTF radio, on 680 AM and 98.5 FM.

Dr. Mandy Cohen, secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Services, answers a question during a briefing on the coronavirus pandemic at the Emergency Operations Center in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, May 26, 2020.
Dr. Mandy Cohen, secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Services, answers a question during a briefing on the coronavirus pandemic at the Emergency Operations Center in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, May 26, 2020.