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Steak 48 Launches National "Round Up The Check" Campaign For Heart Health

Steak 48 is launching a month-long national round up the check campaign to benefit the American Heart Association for the month of February.

Mary C. Curtis: COVID Relief Bill And Increased Vaccine Rollout

Efforts continue on another COVID-19 stimulus for millions of struggling Americans. President Biden already meeting with both democrats and republicans this week to talk about his $1.9 trillion plan.

South Carolinians Aged 65 And Older Can Schedule COVID-19 Vaccine Appointments Beginning Feb. 8th

Governor Henry McMaster and the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) today announced that beginning Monday, February 8, any South Carolina resident aged 65 or older, regardless of health status or preexisting conditions, can begin scheduling their appointment to receive COVID-19 vaccine.

NC Prisons Offer Incentives For Offenders To Get Vaccine

Most North Carolina prisoners can get five days knocked off their sentences if they receive COVID-19 vaccinations, state corrections officials said on Friday.

NC Gov. Roy Cooper Pushes for In Person Education

School districts across North Carolina are working on ways to safely bring students back into the classroom. On Tuesday, Governor Roy Cooper strongly encouraged more than a dozen districts including Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools to make a change.

Governor Wants All Districts To Return Pupils To Classrooms

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday announced his desire for the state’s more than 1.5 million public school students to be given the option of daily in-person classes. But he declined to compel districts to make that option available.

Feds To Start Sending COVID Vaccine To Pharmacies Next Week

The Biden administration will begin shipping COVID-19 vaccines to U.S. pharmacies next week, ramping up vaccinations as new and potentially more serious virus strains are appearing, the White House said Tuesday.

US Awards $231M Contract For At-Home Virus Tests

White House coronavirus adviser Andy Slavitt says the government awarded a $231-million contract to scale up production of a COVID-19 home test recently authorized by U.S. regulators.

Push To Reopen Schools Could Leave Out Millions Of Students

President Joe Biden says he wants most schools serving kindergarten through eighth grade to reopen by late April, but even if that happens, it is likely to leave out millions of students, many of them minorities in urban areas.

UK-Based Coronavirus Variant Detected In South Carolina

The first known case of the U.K.-based variant of the coronavirus has been discovered in South Carolina, state health officials said Saturday.

President Biden, Democrats Hit Gas On Push For $15 Minimum Wage

The Democratic push to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour has emerged as an early flashpoint in the fight for a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, testing President Joe Biden’s ability to bridge Washington’s partisan divides as he pursues his first major legislative victory.

Thousands Take Part In Mass Vaccination Event At Bank of America Stadium

The race to vaccinate the population intensified in Mecklenburg county on Friday as concerns of the new COVID variant increase. Health departments and hospitals are working to set up mass events and increase the number of innoculations as supply slowly picks up.

SC Reports 1st Death From Inflammatory Pediatric Syndrome

South Carolina health officials reported the state’s first death Friday from a pediatric inflammatory syndrome associated with COVID-19.

Biden Taking 'Creative Steps' To Push For $1.9T Aid Plan

Republican lawmakers are balking at the cost of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue plan — but the Biden team is trying to convince the country that the cost is a bargain compared to the potential damage to the world’s largest economy.

J&J 1-Dose Shot Prevents COVID-19, But Less Than Some Others

Johnson & Johnson’s long-awaited vaccine appears to protect against COVID-19 with just one shot – not as strong as some two-shot rivals but still potentially helpful for a world in dire need of more doses.

Mecklenburg County Health Officials Extend COVID-19 Directive Through February

Mecklenburg County Health Director Gibbie Harris says a modified COVID-19 health Directive will replace the one scheduled to expire on February 2nd as coronavirus case rates remain high in the county.

Cicely Tyson, Groundbreaking Award-Winning Actor, Dies At 96

Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder,” a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers’ hearts in “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” died Thursday at age 96.