US recommends ‘pause’ for J&J vaccine: Here’s everything you need to know WSOCTV.com News Staff, ZEKE MILLER and LAURAN NEERGAARD, Associated Press
The U.S. is recommending a “pause” in administration of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to investigate reports of potentially dangerous blood clots. Channel 9 will have complete team coverage to walk you through what this means for you and your family, on Channel 9 starting at 5 p.m.
In a joint statement Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration said they were investigating unusual clots in six women that occurred 6 to 13 days after vaccination. The clots occurred in veins that drain blood from the brain and occurred together with low platelets. All six cases were in women between the ages of 18 and 48.
9 Investigates: Tracking COVID-19 vaccines in long-term care facilities Allison Latos
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North Carolina has shared information about those who received the COVID-19 vaccine as the push to vaccinate everyone against the virus has continued. The data includes statewide information on gender, race, and ethnicity, but there isn’t a clear picture about people in long-term care facilities.
More than 3,500 people have died of COVID-19 inside state nursing homes since the start of the pandemic. Residents and employees in long-term care facilities are at the top of the vaccine priority list but not every resident and employee has gotten the COVID-19 vaccine.
Ransomware Attack: CPCC to resume some classes Monday, cancels spring break WSOCTV.com News Staff
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Central Piedmont Community College, North Carolina’s second-largest community college, has confirmed it’s the victim of a ransomware attack that has shut down all school-related technology.
The college told Channel 9 that the servers are being held for money, but haven’t specified how much.
CPCC update: Some classes resuming Monday. Others on March 1. Spring break will now be used for instructional days for most classes. https://t.co/4XtgjPMFBC Michael Stolp (@StolpWSOC9) February 17, 2021
Officials said the attack was discovered last Wednesday evening and caused the college to cancel classes for several days.
Atrium Health employees caught on camera working without masks Allison Latos
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Susan Klepper said she felt like she was in the “Twilight Zone” on Sunday when she noticed several medical staffers inside a SouthPark emergency department weren’t wearing masks.
Out of concern, Klepper said she asked a nurse why he wasn’t wearing one.
“He told me in a flippant attitude that the masks don’t do a thing,” she said. “I saw three more nurses with no masks on. Their masks were down around their necks.”
A #CLT woman tells me she was shocked to see @AtriumHealth staff inside a local ED not wearing masks. What she did after taking these pics & we ask hospital officials if this is allowed. @wsoctv 6pm. pic.twitter.com/caTzP5ghc9 Allison Latos (@AllisonWSOC9) February 1, 2021