Rose Hoban | North Carolina Health News

North Carolina has a good Samaritan law to protect people who call to help someone who’s overdosed. But advocates say it’s confusing and dissuades too many from reaching out.

After years of pleading by advocates, lawmakers in North Carolina are giving serious consideration to adding about a half-million low-income workers and their families to the Medicaid program.

Eighteen months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the delta variant is forcing public health workers to accelerate their work — for what they hope will be the last time.

A report from the Kaiser Family Foundation this week estimates that the U.S. will likely “reach a tipping point on vaccine enthusiasm in the next two to four weeks.” The report writers surmise that once this occurs, “efforts to encourage vaccination will become much harder, presenting a challenge to reaching the levels of herd immunity that are expected to be needed.”