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.
South Carolina health officials reported the state’s first death Friday from a pediatric inflammatory syndrome associated with COVID-19.
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.
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 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 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.
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 aren’t yet widely available.
The Salisbury VA Medical Center will host a mass COVID-19 vaccination event with the goal of vaccinating 1,000 veterans over two days.
A new coronavirus variant identified in South Africa has been found in the United States for the first time, with two cases diagnosed in South Carolina, state health officials said Thursday.
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper extending the state’s modified stay-at-home order on Wednesday, despite key metrics moving in the right direction.
Health officials warn South Carolina residents looking to get their vaccine to be aware of scammers targeting COVID-19 vaccine seekers, as they are looking to steal private information or money.
Governor Roy Cooper says the North Carolina Modified Stay-At-Home Order will be extended until at least Sunday, February 28th, requiring people to stay home from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m.
Opponents of abortion joined with some of South Carolina’s most powerful Republican politicians to mark what they think may be the end of a long fight to pass a bill that would ban almost all abortions in the state.
South Carolina is ranked 10th in the nation for how quickly the state is administering the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a new national report by Becker's Hospital Review.
This week, hospitals will feel the strain of getting little to no covid vaccine. State Health Director Dr. Mandy Cohen says it's because most of the doses allocated to the state are going to large-scale vaccination events that were planned weeks ago.
Mecklenburg County officials will hold a press conference to update the public on the county's COVID-19 response. County Manager Dena R. Diorio and Health Director Gibbie Harris will speak.
Key metrics are moving in the right direction as the fight against COVID-19 continues. The encouraging news comes as a new strain of the virus is confirmed in North Carolina for the first time.
The number of COVID-19 cases in the York County Detention Center (YCDC) has increased to 47. This increase is from the results of a facility wide COVID-19 testing.
The Senate plans to begin former President Trump's trial next month. The article will be presented Monday and Senators will be sworn in as jurors Tuesday.
Weddington Elementary students and staff will work remotely for the next two weeks after five students tested positive for coronavirus, according to school officials.
Senator Bernie Sanders began selling sweatshirts and t-shirts for charity after a photo of him wearing mittens at the presidential inauguration went viral.
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