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Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, Novant Health lift visitor restrictions for children under 13

Hospital officials say the move comes amid a decline in respiratory virus cases.

Both systems put restrictions on children visitors in December when illnesses, including the flu, were increasing.

For weeks cases have been going down and are less severe. 

Some other guidelines remain in place.

Parking is still an issue at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center due to construction. As a result, hospitalized patients may have two healthy visitors at a time. Those making outpatient visits may bring one person with them. 

All other Wake Forest Baptist locations are fully open to visitors.

Novant Health advises that anyone with respiratory virus symptoms including fever, headaches, cough or stuffy or runny nose should not visit the hospital. 

Masks remain optional at both health systems except under certain conditions including in areas for vulnerable patients.

 

 

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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