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North Carolinians ages 65-74 are now eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccination, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday.

Forsyth County and North Carolina have reached again new daily highs for COVID-19 cases, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services reported Saturday.

The surge in COVID-19 cases appears likely to continue into March, according to two local infectious disease experts this week. "We dont know the answer to when this will peak," Dr. David Priest with Novant Health Inc. said Friday. "A lot of factors will go into it. "How well we protect ourselves and our families and our communities in terms of exposure to group settings." The projection from Dr. Mandy Cohen, the states health secretary, is that the majority of North Carolinians will not receiv...

There were 10,398 new cases reported Thursday by the state Department of Health and Human Services. As a result, the state is fast approaching the 600,000 total cases, with 592,746 as of 11 a.m. Thursday. A record 137 COVID-19 related deaths were reported by DHHS, surpassing the previous high of 98 reported Dec. 16. DHHS lists COVID-19 cases and deaths on the day they are confirmed by medical providers and public health officials, so individuals may have been infected or died days before their ...

An additional eight staffers at the Forsyth County Jail have become infected with COVID-19, along with two more inmates, according to the latest report from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services. With the new numbers, the Forsyth County Jail has had a total of 116 COVID-19 infections, including 97 inmates and 19 staffers, in an outbreak that began at the end of November. The jail has the second-largest outbreak of COVID-19 among 21 correctional facilities listed in the DHHS report. M...

North Carolina ended 2020 at a record level of hospitalizations amid what may be the first wave of an expected Christmas holiday surge in cases. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services reported Thursday there are 3,493 North Carolinians hospitalized with COVID-19-related symptoms. Thats up 154 from Wednesdays report and up 116 from the previous high of 3,377 reported Tuesday. By comparison, there were 1,966 individuals hospitalized with the coronavirus on Nov. 30. DHHS reported 6,715 c...

Sheriff Kimbrough Speaks about COVID-19 in the Forsyth County Jail Sixty-eight inmates at the Forsyth County Jail have tested positive for COVID-19, the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office announced during a news conference Monday morning. That’s an 84 percent increase from the most recent number of 37 inmates that the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services reported on Friday. The state agency reported then that a total of 48 overall positive cases were at the Forsyth County Jail, i...

Why are monoclonal antibodies dividing docs treating Covid-19? Erika Edwards Dr. Michael Saag cannot get enough monoclonal antibodies to treat Covid-19. Theyre not for him, personally; he still has natural antibodies to the coronavirus since recovering from the illness this past March. But Saag, an infectious disease physician at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said he would take the monoclonal antibodies — made in a lab to mirror the bodys natural immune response to ...

Guilford County prepares for phased COVID-19 vaccine distribution The NCDHHS laid out a framework for how local departments of public health will receive vaccines, and when and how they can distribute them. Author: Lea Wilson Updated: 12:00 PM EST December 17, 2020 GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. — Editors note: The video in this story is from Dec. 14, 2020, when Wake Forest Infectious Disease expert Dr. Christopher Ohl got one of the first COVID-19 vaccines in the Tria...

This vaccine is going to give us some relief | First Triad healthcare workers get coronavirus shot Ten Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center healthcare workers were vaccinated Tuesday. Most shots arent exciting but they said this one was history. Author: Grace Holland Updated: 7:10 PM EST December 15, 2020 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Ten Triad healthcare workers became the first in the area to get the coronavirus vaccine Tuesday. Those Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center...