The nursing home says its staff followed clinical practice guidelines in managing the 66-year-old's pain. She was one of 31 residents and five staff members who had tested positive for the virus.
As in-person classes are a thing of the pass at least for now, there are 250 students still staying on campus. They have to. They say they don’t have the internet at home.
The Department of Health and Human Services told the Associated Press Wednesday that the federal stockpile was in the process of deploying all remaining personal protective equipment in its inventory. A small percentage will be kept in reserve to support federal response efforts, the department said
Even as coronavirus deaths continue to mount across Europe, New York and other hot spots, the U.S. and other governments are slowly beginning to envision an exit strategy.
An MUSC Health spokeperson says the changes will last through the end of June 2020. If there is a need for more care team members, some of the laid off employees could be asked to come back.
Dale Folwell, the State Treasurer of North Carolina, says he's about 75-80 percent recovered from COVID-19, the disease caused by a novel coronavirus responsible for thousands of deaths worldwide. The disease put Folwell in the hospital for five days last month with extreme breathing problems.
About 3,500 part-time staff and 240 full-time employees have been furloughed, according to a statement from the organization. The Charlotte YMCA closed its branches and camps March 17, temporarily suspending in-person classes and activities.
Bishop Alan Porter calls himself a walking miracle. He contracted COVID19 and says his recovery was a painful experience. Porter is the Pastor of The Connecting Place at Greater Salem in Northwest Charlotte.
North Carolina college students who live in off-campus apartments are seeking rent relief after some property managers are offering little to no leeway for rent payments.
Some small business owners say they can't find a place to get a loan through the federal coronavirus relief package meant to help pay employees, rent and other expenses.
North Carolina’s legislative leaders signaled Wednesday that lawmakers would retroactively ease deadlines and regulations surrounding the state’s motor vehicle laws.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster issued a new executive order that allows furloughed employees to receive “COVID-19 Support Payments” from their employers and also qualify for unemployment benefits.
Dick’s Sporting Goods is finding it impossible to function without any sports, so the big box retailer says it is furloughing most of its 40,000 employees.
COVID-19 is known to attack a person’s lungs and one of our best defenses against that is to make sure they’re strong and healthy in the first place. For many, that starts by stopping smoking.
Mecklenburg County health officials confirmed Wednesday they have confirmed outbreaks at two nursing home facilities and investigating a possible third.
Despite mocking the idea of climate change, President Donald Trump will preside over one of the country’s sharpest drops in climate-damaging emissions on record, as the economic paralysis from the coronavirus tamps down energy use, according to an Energy Department projection on Tuesday.
The World Health Organization was on the defensive Wednesday after President Donald Trump blasted the U.N. health body over its recommendations on the coronavirus and threatened to strip hundreds of millions of dollars that had come from its top single donor.
Markets have been incredibly volatile in recent weeks as investors blindly guess how badly the coronavirus outbreak will hurt corporate profits amid suffocating uncertainty.
The public health crisis could build a legal backlog that overwhelms courts across the country, leaving some defendants behind bars longer, and forcing prosecutors to decide which cases to pursue and which to let slide.
The money can be used for things like housing and utilities, the sudden loss of home, the death of a family member or partner, and related funeral expenses.
North Carolina health officials reported a total of 3,426 cases of coronavirus across 90 counties Monday, according to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS). At least 53 deaths have been reported.
Stores will start asking customers to wait outside if the number of people inside is at 50-percent of the building code capacity, officials said in a release.
Thousands of acres of fruits and vegetables grown in Florida are being plowed over or left to rot because farmers can't sell to restaurants, theme parks or schools nationwide that have closed because of the coronavirus.
The Baltimore Police Department is investigating after a sergeant was caught on camera coughing near residents of a Southeast Baltimore housing project without covering his mouth.
Given that symptoms of COVID-19 can range from extreme to nonexistent, many may be left wondering if they’ve already had it, or if their turn is still to come.
For many residents at nursing homes and assisted living facilities, the strict stay-at-home orders have caused loneliness as they attempt to stay in touch with family barred from visiting them.
North Carolina will provide housing alternatives for residents with unstable housing who may need to quarantine in response to COVID-19, or for residents who are at high-risk for severe illness from the virus.
Thousands were forced to congregate for hours in long lines on Tuesday with no protective gear. Thousands more stayed home, unwilling to risk their health and unable to be counted because requested absentee ballots never arrived.
Starting Wednesday, the U.S. Census Bureau is mailing out paper forms to 65.6 million homes whose residents haven't yet answered the once-a-decade questionnaire.
To keep up with the number of patients in hospitals right now, the state board of nursing is changing some rules to get more nurses into the workforce.
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said that if Americans continue to practice social distancing for the rest of April, "we will be able to get back to some sense of normalcy."
Democrats in and out of Wisconsin screamed for the low-profile contest to be postponed, yet Republicans — and the conservative-majority state Supreme Court — would not give in.
Community engagement officers from the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office have been spending a portion of their weekdays delivering meals to local hotels.
It closed in 2017 but state leaders say it is now being prepared to reopen with the expectation it could help with the influx of COVID-19 patients in North Carolina.
"As you can imagine, at this time, of course, they're going to be potentially quite busy at home with their family, as well, and their own bunnies," Ardern said." And so, I say to the children of New Zealand, if the Easter Bunny doesn't make it to your household, then we have to understand that it's
Dr. Anthony Fauci is now a familiar face to Americans as he gives daily updates at the White House. Gray Television Washington Bureau Chief Jacqueline Policastro talked to him Tuesday about what communities across the country are facing.
After an assigned project by his engineering teacher and robotics team coach amid distance learning, 17-year-old Mark Dannemiller was determined to figure out a way to help those suffering from the virus.
