President Biden is reportedly planning to hire Mandy Cohen, a former North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary, to serve as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
A Ukrainian teenager adopted by two U.S. Army veterans was originally denied a kidney transplant by Duke University's medical system for being unvaccinated against COVID-19.
However, a recent U.K. community-based population study found that those who have previously been infected with SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, demonstrate a lower rate of new Omicron BA.4/BA.5 infections compared to those who were vaccinated.
North Carolina's Republican-dominated General Assembly has successfully overruled a veto from Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, to enact legislation that severely restricts abortions beyond 12 weeks of pregnancy.