NEW HANOVER COUNTY — Now that Pfizer approved its vaccine for kids and teens 12 to 17 years old, New Hanover Regional Medical Center will hold a kids day…
New Hanover County has inoculated 34% of its population. (Port City Daily/File)
North Carolina now has 46.4% of the population fully vaccinated, with 51.5% partially vaccinated. Gov. Cooper had been pressing the message over the last few months that he would lift the mask mandate when two-thirds of the population have at least one shot. Yet, following the CDC’s announcement last week that vaccinated people could go maskless in public, the governor surprised North Carolinians on Friday by announcing he would drop masks for both vaccinated and unvaccinated people.
The only exception: Masks must still be worn on public transportation, in childcare centers, schools, prisons, and other public-health settings.
Gov. Roy Cooper toured the Martin Luther King Center and talked with staff and members of the media in Wilmington, N.C. Thursday, May 6, 2021. Gov. Cooper was touring the facility to see how the Covid-19 vaccinations were being administered at the site and to hear about the county’s progress. (Courtesy Ken Blevins/StarNews)
WILMINGTON Gov. Roy Cooper exited a black SUV alongside his security detail early Thursday afternoon to greet local politicians who had gathered outside a downtown Wilmington vaccine clinic.
The governor was in New Hanover County to tour the Martin Luther King Center a city-owned building that has serviced more than 12,000 vaccine appointments since late January.
May 19, 2021
Current guidelines strongly recommend use of the therapy for cardiology, diabetes patients
In a series of presentations at ACC.21, the virtual meeting of the American College of Cardiology, researchers delivered data to confirm two observations about cardiovascular outcomes in heart failure patients with or without type 2 diabetes (T2D) and/or chronic kidney disease (CDK). First, the use of SGLT2 inhibitors is associated with reduced risk of cardiovascular death, worsening heart failure, and/or hospitalization for heart failure, and second, SGLT2i agents are woefully underused.
In a presentation titled, “Just Go With the Flo(zin): SGLT2i Should Be Added to A Few, Some, Most, All HFrEF Patients?”, Glenn Herrington, PharmD, Ambulatory Care Cardiology Pharmacist at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, North Carolina, reviewed findings from EMPA-REG OUTCOME, CANVAS PROGRAM,DECLARE-TIMI 58, VERTIS CV, DAPA-HF, and EMPEROR-REDUCED to assess benefits and
Victim in cold case takes stand during rape trial
Victim in cold case takes stand during rape trial By Ann McAdams | May 17, 2021 at 4:56 PM EDT - Updated May 17 at 5:23 PM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The victim in a high profile rape case took the witness stand Monday to testify against the man who she says raped her 25 years ago.
When North Carolina began testing backlogged rape kits a couple of years ago, officials say her kit got a match to a Florida man named Wayne Soller.
At the time of the crime in Septemer 1996, the victim was a 24-year-old teacher, living at an apartment complex off St. John’s Court near Independence Mall. She says she woke up in the middle of the night with a strange man on top of her. He punched her in the face, put a pillow over her face so no one would hear her scream, and raped her.