Mandy Cohen

Gov. Roy Cooper is expected to give an update on the COVID-19 pandemic in North Carolina this afternoon.

Dr. Mandy Cohen, the secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Services, is stepping down, WUNC has confirmed. She quickly became the public face of North Carolina's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

State data shows more than 24,000 kids in the age group got the vaccine within the first five days it was administered. This represents less than 3% of the almost 900,000 children eligible in the age group.

Dr. Mandy Cohen and Dr. Charlene Wong are expected to answer questions from reporters.

North Carolina will have more than 400,000 doses of the low-dose Pfizer COVID-19 shot within the next week. The vaccine has been approved for emergency use in children ages 5 to 11.

Most of North Carolina’s Medicaid recipients have now moved over to managed care. Starting Thursday five statewide or regional health plans are handling care for roughly 1.6 million consumers covered by government health programs for poor children, older adults and others. Other patients will join next year.

More than 80,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson are arriving in North Carolina this week. State Health Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen…

Early this week, simmering frustrations boiled over with a multi-million-dollar system that the state of North Carolina bought to track vaccine…

North Carolina's top public health official acknowledged for the first time on Thursday that the state has seen a small number of coronavirus vaccine…

As some places in North Carolina enter the next phase of COVID vaccinations, people who are wanting to get vaccinated are experiencing long wait…