At the western end of North Carolina, Cherokee County saw one of the state’s first confirmed case s of COVID-19. Here’s how local officials responded to the case: When the first diagnosis of COVID-19 in Cherokee County was announced only a few facts were shared. It was a woman visiting from New York . She didn’t have any symptoms until after she came to North Carolina. And she had been to a contra dance at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown . “I mean I think that has been the biggest