As more cases pop up around Southeastern North Carolina there’s an increased push for contact tracing. It’s where health workers track down people who may have been exposed to the virus and let them know they may need tested as well.
North Carolina officials on Thursday announced that nearly 75,000 federally-funded rapid antigen tests will be sent to colleges and universities to bolster student testing ahead of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday.
POLITICO is reporting North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen is being considered for a top spot in the Biden Administration.
Health officials fear a snowball effect will send the case count to our highest spike yet as we move beyond Halloween, the election season and into the holidays.
Gov. Roy Cooper (D) said Thursday he’s concerned about the state’s already-high COVID-19 numbers trending even higher as the holiday season begins, holding his first briefing on the pandemic since winning re-election this week.
Prosecutors said Seashore Drugs developed a reputation in the Wilmington pharmacy community as a place that “filled the prescriptions other pharmacies refused.”
While state-run prisons in North Carolina have been court ordered to take extra steps to protect inmates from COVID-19, the same rules do not apply to county jails. As a result, each county sheriff is operating their jail by a different set of rules.
Mt. Calvary Center for Leadership Development is offering a quarantine support program for anyone directed to quarantine because of exposure to someone who tested positive for COVID-19 or testing positive yourself.
New Hanover County Schools reached the end of two weeks with students back in class Friday; inevitably, cases of COVID-19 have been identified in the district.
The New Hanover County Health and Human Services board voted Tuesday to approve the revised drafted rule to ban smoking and e-cigarette use in the county.
After three school closures and ten positive cases so far this school year, the superintendent asks community members to take extra precautions when out in public.
North Carolina will soon launch a pilot program to begin digitizing electronic death records. It is currently one of just three states still processing death certificates by hand, which has made it hard to gauge the impact of COVID-19 on the state's mortality rate.
New Hanover Regional Medical Center has submitted an application to the state to build a 66 bed facility in Scotts Hill. The Certificate of Need application is under review by the NC Division of Health Service Regulation.
Dublin Primary School will be closed for a minimum of two weeks “due to a significant increase in the number of COVID-19 cases and close contact cases,” Bladen County Schools announced Friday morning.
