The Cooper administration said Wednesday it will expand COVID-19 vaccinations to teachers and most educators beginning Feb. 24. Vaccinations for other essential frontline workers are expected to start March 10.
The White House is increasing the supply of coronavirus vaccines beginning next week, with an aim to ensure the equity of the distribution of doses. The Cooper administration said Tuesday it plans to provide a timeline this week for when essential workers could begin getting COVID-19 vaccinations. However, Gov. Roy Cooper and state Health Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen cautioned there s still a long way to go before filling the demand from people in Groups One and Two â individuals 65 and older, and health care workers â given limited vaccine supplies. Focusing on the first two groups has bipartisan support from state Republican legislative leaders, who have stressed elderly residents should be prioritized over young, healthy essential workers.
NC governor says state will decide this week when to expand COVID vaccine availability Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan and Richard Stradling, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) Feb. 9 RALEIGH N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper said Tuesday that the state will announce this week when it will widen the availability of COVID-19 vaccines to include teachers, firefighters and other front-line essential workers. At a press conference Tuesday, Cooper said the state will provide precise dates that those front-line essential workers, known as Group 3 in North Carolina, will be eligible for vaccines. For now, he said, there s still not enough vaccine to meet the demand of the first two groups of eligible people: health care workers and people ages 65 and older.
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The NC Council for Health Care Coverage worked Friday to put the final touches on a set of principles that it hopes will guide legislators and the Cooper administration toward getting health insurance for more North Carolinians. The large group of lawmakers, employers, insurers and others have met under the auspices of the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy since last month to come up with goals for expanded health insurance coverage. Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, created the bipartisan group. He pushed for Medicaid expansion in his first term as the way to get more adults insured. Opponents in the Republican-controlled legislature have said they worry about costs to the state. Medicaid expansion has never come to a vote. The federal government pays 90% of Medicaid expansion costs.
Lawmakers are fighting to help small businesses afford health insurance, but they’re running out of time. As the pandemic and the shutdowns wreck the economy, thousands of North Carolinians continue to lose their insurance. North Carolina has nearly 1.2 million uninsured residents. Gov. Roy Cooper and his allies are pushing Medicaid expansion as the solution. But Republicans are skeptical, and they want other reforms. Medicaid expansion receded into the background during the second meeting of the N.C. Council for Health Care Coverage on Friday, Dec. 18. Cooper filled the first meeting with reasons to expand Medicaid to cover low-income, childless adults. But after Republicans criticized the first meeting, the council turned its focus to other policies.