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By Anne Blythe Anybody in North Carolina who’s at least 16 years old will have access to a COVID-19 vaccine by April 7. Gov. Roy Cooper shared the news with reporters on Thursday, saying the state could accelerate access because of an expected increase in vaccine supplies in the coming weeks. Additionally, providers in some

By Hannah Critchfield For a rollout large enough to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic, you need volunteers. A lot of them. Getting shots into millions of arms requires boots on the ground, and to vaccinate a majority of North Carolina’s population – who reside in a nation already experiencing a shortage of health care workers

By Anne Blythe “Fast and fair.” That’s how Gov. Roy Cooper describes the state’s mission to get coronavirus vaccines into as many arms across the state as possible. In a state with more than 10.5 million people, nearly 1.1 million of them have been fully inoculated against the now not-so-novel coronavirus that upended so much

By Kate Martin, Carolina Public Press Editor’s note: This article is Part 2 of a two-part investigative series. Carolina Public Press is an independent, in-depth and investigative nonprofit news service for North Carolina. For years, if sexual assault survivors in Cumberland County sought care, they could count on going to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center

By Greg Barnes Ten days after Christmas, a line of vehicles spilled out of a COVID-19 drive-thru testing site in Fayetteville, snarling traffic on a busy street. That Monday was among the site’s busiest. Its director, Dr. Robert Clinton, said about 900 people were tested that day, so many that he decided to switch from

By Anne Blythe, Hannah Critchfield and Thomas Goldsmith On a day that North Carolina’s COVID-19 death toll topped the 4,000 mark and the number of people hospitalized with illness related to the novel coronavirus is the second highest in the pandemic, Gov. Roy Cooper hit the pause on any further reopening. North Carolina public health

By Greg Barnes North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein filed a lawsuit Tuesday saying the Chemours and DuPont chemical companies need to be held accountable for contaminating the state’s natural resources with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS. “DuPont and Chemours dumped PFAS into our state’s drinking waters when they knew that these forever

By Anne Blythe If North Carolinians want to keep going to restaurants and retail stores through the winter, now is not the time to let coronavirus pandemic fatigue give way to less mask wearing and social distancing. That was the message from Mandy Cohen, secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Services, who

By Anne Blythe and Greg Barnes The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the country’s first public university to open its doors to students, found itself on the trailblazing path again this week. Instead of welcoming students to its classrooms and campus residence halls, the university became the first of the 17 UNC system

By Greg Barnes North Carolina’s attorney general says he has started an investigation into manufacturers that contaminate the state’s waterways with per-or polyfluoroalkyl substances, commonly known as PFAS or “forever chemicals.” “North Carolinians expect and deserve clean water to drink,” Attorney General Josh Stein said in a news release on Monday announcing his investigation. “The