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.
The director of a crisis pregnancy center in North Carolina that was vandalized in 2022 said city leaders have been silent about the crime, but local police have gone out of their way to protect the organization.