RALEIGH North Carolina native and NASCAR Hall of Famer Richard Petty recently received a COVID-19 vaccine.
The seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion, and all-time leader in premier series race wins with 200, Petty was vaccinated at a drive-through vaccination center located near his hometown of Level Cross, N.C.
In a public service announcement released by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Petty, 83, shares his reasons for getting vaccinated and urges others to find their spot and take their shot.
I talked to my doctor, and he highly recommended that I go ahead and get a shot, Petty said.
CONCORD — The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services announced that on Sunday, March 14, the state had 307 new positive test results for COVID-19, for a current
Republicans consider whether to block Whitmer s health chief
DAVID EGGERT, Associated Press
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FILE In this Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021 file photo, provided by the Michigan Office of the Governor, Elizabeth Hertel, director of the state health department addresses the state. Republican senators critical of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer s handling of the coronavirus pandemic are weighing whether to reject her appointee Hertel to run the state health department, which has issued orders restricting business capacity and gathering sizes to limit COVID-19 s spread. (Michigan Office of the Governor via AP)AP
LANSING, Mich. (AP) Republican senators critical of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer s handling of the coronavirus pandemic are weighing whether to reject her appointee to run the state health department, which has issued orders restricting business capacity and gatherings to limit COVID-19 s spread.
Editorial: What Biden can do about the border crisis
March 16, 2021
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Migrant children and teenagers waiting to be processed near Midland, Texas, this week.Eli Hartman/Associated Press
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy took a break from reading Dr. Seuss to visit the U.S.-Mexico border Monday, but he was still speaking in the simplistic terms of children’s literature. During an appearance with other lawmakers in El Paso, McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, attempted to brand the latest surge of migrants the “Biden border crisis.”
McCarthy was right in one respect: The border is President Biden’s problem now. His administration is struggling to handle the influx of migrants arriving there, particularly the children among them, as competently and humanely as it should. But the idea that Biden created or even exacerbated the problem is as fictitious as “Green Eggs and Ham.”
Newest Nevada vaccine group can self-report health condition
March 16, 2021
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LAS VEGAS (AP) People age 55 and older can self-report to their pharmacist any underlying health conditions that make them eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccinations, Nevada health officials said.
As eligibility has broadened in the statewide coronavirus inoculation process, deaths from COVID-19 have fallen to an average of about four per day, state biostatistician Kyra Morgan told a statewide panel on Tuesday. Average deaths during the pandemic peaked at 40 per day in mid-January.
Morgan did not tie vaccinations to recent data showing fewer hospitalizations and deaths.
But “this is really about the best we’ve seen since the beginning of the pandemic,” she told Nevada COVID-19 Task Force members.