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It has become abundantly clear that there is no benefit in getting sick with COVID-19. Avoiding becoming infected should be everyone’s goal. It is an infectious disease with unpredictable outcomes, ranging across the health spectrum from benign asymptomatic, to mild cold-like symptoms, to severe flu-like symptoms, to intubation in an intensive care unit (ICU) or death.    

A Biden administration push for states to pay low-income residents to get the Covid-19 shot is clashing with research findings that certain financial incentives are largely ineffective—leaving government officials on the line for new ways to bolster vaccination numbers.

At least 1,303,390 people in North Carolina have tested positive for the coronavirus, and at least 15,247 have died since March 2020, according to state health officials.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) developed its Accelerated Approval Program in 1992, with the intention of moving certain new drugs to the market faster.

During the heights of the pandemic, COVID-19 outbreaks were frequently reported among fire departments, with one Johnston County department hit by the death of a firefighter as well as several hospitalizations.