When the coronavirus forced churches to close their doors and give up Sunday collections, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte turned to the federal governmentβs signature small business relief program for more than $8 million.
North Carolina lawmakers on Thursday unanimously approved a coronavirus relief bill that sends federal money approved by Congress in December to schools for reopening, public health officials distributing the vaccine and residents struggling to pay their rent.
We're getting a closer look at the demographic breakdown of who has gotten the COVID vaccine in Mecklenburg County. There are growing concerns about racial disparities when it comes to access.
Steak 48 is launching a month-long national round up the check campaign to benefit the American Heart Association for the month of February.
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.
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.
Most North Carolina prisoners can get five days knocked off their sentences if they receive COVID-19 vaccinations, state corrections officials said on Friday.
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.Β
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday announced his desire for the stateβs 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.
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.
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.
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.
The first known case of the U.K.-based variant of the coronavirus has been discovered in South Carolina, state health officials said Saturday.
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 Bidenβs ability to bridge Washingtonβs partisan divides as he pursues his first major legislative victory.
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.Β
South Carolina health officials reported the stateβs first death Friday from a pediatric inflammatory syndrome associated with COVID-19.
Republican lawmakers are balking at the cost of President Joe Bidenβs $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue plan β but the Biden team is trying to convince the country that the cost is a bargain compared to the potential damage to the worldβs largest economy.
Johnson & Johnsonβs long-awaited vaccine appears to protect against COVID-19 with just one shot β not as strong as some two-shot rivals but still potentially helpful for a world in dire need of more doses.
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, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropperβs wife in βSounder,β a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewersβ hearts in βThe Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,β died Thursday at age 96.
Former Carolina Panthers head coach Ron Rivera is officially cancer free, according to his daughter Courtney Rivera.
President Joe Biden on Thursday ordered government health insurance markets to reopen for a special sign-up window, offering uninsured Americans a haven as the spread of COVID-19 remains dangerously high and vaccines arenβt yet widely available.
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