Rose Hoban | North Carolina Health News
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”