COVID-19 Vaccine

With the power shift in Washington comes a shift in the federal government's focus on COVID-19.

With the virus still raging in the U.S., public health experts say we can't afford to just wait around for the vaccine. They share advice for what communities can do now to slow the death toll.

The Charlotte area's first mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic opened to the public Friday at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. It was the first of several mass clinics planned for the city in the coming weeks.

The two companies making COVID-19 vaccines each promised to deliver 100 million doses to the federal government by the end of March. So far, they appear to be running behind.

About 1,000 employees of Union County Public Schools are getting vaccinated against COVID-19 Friday and Saturday, an option that's not yet available to most frontline workers in the state.

As the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines unfolds in the U.S., numerous questions around distribution, supply, hesitancy and efficacy persist. Experts from Harvard and the CDC tackle these questions.

North Carolina health Secretary Mandy Cohen says the state’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout is speeding up, but getting most people vaccinated will still take several months.

North Carolina's Department of Public Safety announced on Wednesday it has received about 1,000 doses of Moderna's coronavirus vaccine for inmates and prison staff.

Gov. Roy Cooper and health Secretary Mandy Cohen visited UNC-Chapel Hill’s Friday Center as UNC plans to vaccinate 10,000 people at that and more than a dozen other locations across the state this week.

North Carolina is among more than a dozen states that have called up the National Guard to help at vaccination sites, and Joe Biden may mobilize Guard units nationally.