North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen will share an update regarding COVID-19. Watch, here, live starting at 2 p.m.
For the latest week of data, there were 435 hospital admissions for COVID-19, up nearly four-fold from a low point of 117 during the week of June 24. Despite the increase, hospitalizations are still well below the numbers seen both earlier this year and at the height of the pandemic.
The virus that causes COVID-19 is again circulating more widely across North Carolina, and health experts are again urging people to make plans to get updated vaccine boosters.
The White House has selected a former North Carolina health official to be the new director of the nation's top federal public health agency. Dr. Mandy Cohen has been picked to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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.