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A nationwide program has released new data showing that health outcomes for people in Cumberland County are dropping.

Cumberland County Health Director Jennifer Green said Tuesday that she plans to rescind an order that requires masks in public indoor spaces.

The United States had a real shot of coming together over an amazing achievement. But vaccines have just become another source of bitter division. So what happened?

CLAYTON, N.C. (WTVD) -- Health administrators and physicians across North Carolina on Tuesday warned that hospitals are on the precipice of exceeding capacity as the holiday surge of COVID-19 pummels the state. "The issue is staffing," Dr. Rodney McCaskill, Chief Medical Officer at UNC Hospital in Clayton, told ABC11. "There are not enough nurses or respiratory therapists for beds. The patients coming in are much sicker than what we saw before COVID, and COVID illness in elderly is particularly harsh." According to McCaskill, UNC canceled all elective surgeries at both its locations in Johnst...

2 Fayetteville men discuss recovering from COVID-19 months after hospitalizations Payne is leery of the vaccine. The Fayetteville resident spent a month in the ICU at Cape Fear Valley hospital fighting for his life. He developed double kidney failure, pneumonia and ultimately lost 100 pounds. Hospitals across the country have started to administer the vaccine and he has no intentions of signing up any time soon. "Having had a weird experience with the flu vaccine...with the flu vaccine I was so sick," he said. "I had never taken it before. For the majority of my life, I had never gotten sick...