Mecklenburg County health director says vaccine hesitancy could be a roadblock for lifting COVID-19 restrictions
Health Director Gibbie Harris says while stable numbers are good, there is doubt we will reach the desired 2/3rds vaccination rate by summer Author: Matthew Ablon (WCNC) Updated: 4:18 PM EDT April 29, 2021
CHARLOTTE, N.C. Mecklenburg County Public Health Director Gibbie Harris says the latest COVID-19 metrics are stable in the community, but they re not exactly where she d like them to be as North Carolina turns the corner into summer.
Harris is provided updates in a Thursday afternoon briefing, a day after North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper announced more COVID-19 restrictions would be lifted as the summer season neared. In previous updates, Harris and county Medical Director Dr. Meg Sullivan expressed concerns about plateauing rates of vaccination, but both were optimistic with the approval to restart the use of the single Johnson
Mecklenburg County resuming administration of Johnson & Johnson vaccine
Demand for Johnson & Johnson vaccine By Kristi O Connor and WBTV Web Staff | April 27, 2021 at 8:33 AM EDT - Updated April 27 at 8:33 AM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Mecklenburg County will resume administration of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, April 27.
The CDC and FDA gave the green light to resume the vaccine after the U.S. paused the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine on April 13. The pause was made out of an abundance of caution after reports of six cases of a rare type of blood clot in individuals after receiving the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. The potential reaction is very rare as millions of people have received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
5 Things To Know: New Bill Aims to Legalize Marijuana in North Carolina
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New Bill Aims to Legalize Marijuana in North Carolina
N.C. Rep. John Autry of Charlotte was one of four North Carolina legislators to introduce HB 617 a bill to legalize and regulate the sale, possession, and use of cannabis in North Carolina in the General Assembly this week.
As written, HB 617 will:
Establish the creation of the Office of Social Equity to conduct community reinvestment and repair, social equity, cannabis education and technical assistance activities.
Make legal the use, possession, and cultivation of up to 12 cannabis plants for persons 21 or older for personal use.
Homeless encampment required to vacate from underneath NCDOT property north of uptown
Homeless encampment required to vacate from underneath NCDOT property north of uptown By Courtney Cole | April 22, 2021 at 7:04 PM EDT - Updated April 22 at 7:13 PM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - A small homeless encampment on NCDOT property is being asked to leave.
On Wednesday, Mecklenburg County Public Health Director Gibbie Harris addressed the matter saying this was not done because of a directive or abatement order.
Harris says it is the responsibility of the property owner to make sure people leave the area if they can no longer stay there.
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The Latest (4/23/21):
As of April 23rd, there were 107,860 cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) with 939 deaths due to COVID-19 reported among Mecklenburg County residents.
Data as of April 21 are presented in more detail below.
MCPH provides these routine updates about reported cases of COVID-19 to help our community better understand how this pandemic is developing in our county. These results only reflect laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19 among county residents. Many individuals infected by COVID-19 have not been tested because they are asymptomatic. As such, these results are very fluid and only represent a fraction of the true burden of COVID-19 in our community.