While developing a rapid test that detects the coronavirus in someone’s saliva, Blink Science, a Florida-based startup, heard something startling: The Food and Drug Administration had more than 3,000 emergency use authorization applications and didn’t […]
RALEIGH — The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) announced the launch on Dec. 4 of a COVID-19 testing pilot program in the state’s K-12 public schools. According to the press release […]
RALEIGH — For the past seven months, the coronavirus pandemic has touched every corner of American life and even reached the halls of the West Wing. Yet during that timeframe, the president’s Coronavirus Task Force […]
RALEIGH – The N.C. Dept. of Health and Human Services announced on Wednesday corrections to the state’s daily and cumulative completed COVID-19 test counts after a data discrepancy between electronic and manual reporting of testing […]
PHOENIX — When some 45,000 coronavirus test kits went unused during a 12-day testing blitz in Phoenix’s hardest-hit Latino neighborhoods, it was clear Arizona health officials failed to adequately spread the word to a community […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Food and Drug Administration has given emergency approval to a new approach to coronavirus testing that combines test samples in batches instead of running them one by one, speeding up the […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A grim blame game with partisan overtones is breaking out over COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents, a tiny slice of the population that represents a shockingly high proportion of Americans who […]
RALEIGH — On Thursday June 11, Congressman Dr. Greg Murphy (R-03) highlighted concerns voiced by White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx about North Carolina’s rising metrics and N.C. Department of Health and Human […]
RALEIGH — A draft omnibus bill was unanimously supported by the education working group of the House Select Committee on COVID-19 unanimously during their April 23 meeting. The omnibus contains waivers and policy fixes to […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump gave governors a road map Thursday for recovering from the economic pain of the coronavirus pandemic, laying out “a phased and deliberate approach” to restoring normal activity in places […]
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