A bill that passed the state House last week is named for 14-year-old Yulia Hicks. She was reportedly denied a kidney transplant at Duke Health because her family refused the vaccine.
The chances of developing lingering symptoms after COVID appears to fall sharply from the first to the second time someone gets sick, new research finds. The risk is still significant.
Government agencies, schools and universities would no longer be able to require COVID-19 vaccines under a bill that passed an N.C. House committee Tuesday.
An analysis by The Associated Press, Stanford University’s Big Local News project and Stanford education professor Thomas Dee found 230,000 students in 21 states who have gone missing from schools. They did not move out of state, and did not sign up for private school or home-school.
Serious flu and RSV cases have declined from a recent spike, but cases of COVID-19 are again on the rise and that continues to impact many people in North Carolina’s Triangle.