By Elizabeth Thompson and Mona Dougani North Carolinians are currently faced with choices and confusion about which personal protective measures they should take against COVID-19, as Gov. Roy Cooper released guidance encouraging schools to make masks optional starting March 7 and the state’s remaining counties with mask mandates ended them. These changes follow a drop […]
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The correlation between literacy and incarceration
By Elizabeth Thompson The first thing Barbara Fedders does when she meets clients with juvenile delinquency cases is read their police reports to them. “I just read it to them because I do not think that they can read it,” said Fedders, director of the Youth Justice Clinic based out of the University of North […]
AG Office ad ‘Concerns’ Mission-HCA Deal Was Rigged
The North Carolina attorney general’s office had “great concerns about how HCA was selected” as the purchaser of the Mission Health System, including that “the deck had been stacked in its favor from the beginning” by then-CEO Ronald A. Paulus and his advisor Philip D. Green, according to a 2018 internal document obtained by Asheville […]
First Edition: March 18, 2022
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations. KHN: It Was Already Hard To Find Evusheld, A Covid Prevention Therapy. Now It’s Even Harder As immunocompromised people across the country work to get Evusheld, a potentially lifesaving covid therapy, several hundred providers of the injections were removed from a federal dataset on Wednesday night, […]
Postpartum Depression Rates Have Tripled for New Moms During Pandemic | Health News
(HealthDay) THURSDAY, March 17, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Premiums of postpartum melancholy between American mothers rose almost a few-fold for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, along with significant boosts in major despair and thoughts of self-hurt, according to a new study. It included 670 new mothers who finished on-line screening in between February and […]
Congestion, fever & vomit, oh my! Other viruses are back
By Taylor Knopf As indoor mask mandates drop in some of North Carolina’s most populous counties and schools, other non-COVID viruses are likely to start cropping up. We saw a similar trend in the summer of 2021. The U.S. saw a national spike in respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) as people got vaccinated and COVID restrictions […]