“While I will ask legislators to revisit some areas of this legislation, including changes necessary to quickly deliver rental assistance, these funds will bring needed relief for people who are struggling, schools and small businesses as we strive to emerge from this pandemic,” Cooper said.
The rest of the Group 4, which includes a portion of essential workers, will become eligible April 7. “This move to Group 4 is good news,” said Cooper. “I know there are many efforts across the state getting vaccines to people as quickly and fairly as possible and I want our providers to know that their work is making all the difference.”
"90 percent of (the bill) has nothing to do with COVID And even some of it that something to do with COVID won't be spent until 2027-28 around education," Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told The Pat McCrory Show with Bo Thompson on Wednesday.
The single shot vaccine was given emergency use authorization by the FDA last week and will provide the federal government with 100 million doses until the end of May. J&J's product is said to be less effective at 62% compared to the two-shot variety manufactured by Pfizer.
If you've ever consumed 100 cigarettes in your lifetime, you too can get vaccinated, according to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. As part of Group 4, if you are a smoker (current or former), you'll be able to schedule an appointment for a COVID-19 vaccine beginning on March 24.
Biden originally said there would be enough vaccine supply on-hand to inoculate the entire adult population by the end of July. "Through partnership with vaccine manufacturers and our efforts to ramp up its production, we will now have enough vaccine supply by the end of May," a statement by the administration said.
The virus doesn't know the difference between two hours at night, nor does it understand a curfew that wasn't really enforceable. This is all part of the game being played by Cooper and others that continues to hurt North Carolina businesses.
The Pfizer vaccine was 92% effective at preventing severe disease after two shots and 62% after one. It rivals Johnson & Johnson's one-shot variety of the vaccine which is said to be 66% effective at preventing the virus or its complications. What makes Pfizer's unique is the effectiveness for preventing death was 72% two to three weeks after the first shot, a rate that may improve as immunity builds over time.
Jasmine Johnnae Clifton made her initial appearance in front of a federal judge Monday after a grand jury indicted her on fraud charges last week, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina said in a press release.
More than 2,462,000 people have been killed by COVID-19 worldwide. The total of 511,455 in the U.S. represents a fifth of all deaths that have occurred, in a country which has less than 5 percent of the global population. The number rivals the populations of Atlanta, Georgia and Raleigh, North Carolina. It's also greater than the population of Miami, Florida or Kansas City, Missouri.
