Health

A Mecklenburg County Public Health official is urging anyone who attended convocation events at the United House of Prayer for All People on Beatties Ford Road Oct. 4-11 to get tested.

In North Carolina's only gubernatorial debate, Gov. Roy Cooper threw around a lot of numbers comparing North Carolina to Georgia, and Lt. Gov. Dan Forest said 85% of people who wore face masks contracted the coronavirus. Were they right?

The Michael Jordan Family Medical Clinic opened a second location Monday in north Charlotte, more than a year after the opening of the first clinic funded by a partnership between the Charlotte Hornets owner and Novant Health.

The Affordable Care Act's future is uncertain and there's no end in sight to the pandemic. But for the 2021 insurance year consumers can expect to see modest increases in prices, if any.

African Americans are dying from COVID-19 at twice the rate of whites but they are half as likely as whites to take a vaccine.

North Carolina and South Carolina both draft plans for how they will distribute a coronavirus vaccine once one is available. The states' health departments submitted the plans to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday.

Saint Augustine’s University announced on social media that Irving Pressley McPhail died Thursday, three months after taking the job.

North Carolina on Friday reported a new record high in the number of daily coronavirus cases for the second day in a row. On Thursday, the state’s Department of Health and Human Services reported 2,532 new cases. That number jumped to 2,684 the following day.

Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla said in a public statement Friday that the company won't have data showing that the vaccine is safe before the third week of November at the earliest.

Cases are surging in many places around the country. As we head into winter here's what public health forecasters think we can expect.