Interactive Map: How quickly is COVID-19 spreading in North Carolina counties?

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Several North Carolina healthcare providers will no longer require patients and guests to wear face masks, except in certain circumstances, beginning Tuesday. At 7 a.m. Tuesday, masks will become optional at Atrium Health, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, CaroMont Health, Cone Health, Novant Health and Randolph Health facilities. The regional healthcare […]

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — North Carolina’s top Republican will be in the Piedmont Triad for a rally next month, according to his website, and it could herald a possible run for governor. Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, a Greensboro native who attended Grimsley High School and UNC Greensboro, announced the rally on his website. Axios reports […]

Joseph Harding, a 35-year-old Republican, pleaded guilty to wire fraud, money laundering, and making false statements in connection with COVID-19 relief fraud,

“American Masters: Dr. Tony Fauci,” offers a portrait of an unlikely lightning rod: A government infectious disease scientist who advised seven presidents. Fauci hopes it can inspire more public servants like him.

Scientists are hopeful a new type of vaccine in development could give us a better shot of fighting COVID-19, without involving any type of shot at all.

A new analysis of genetic information conducted by an international group of researchers has found evidence to suggest that COVID-19 originated from infected animals sold at a market in Wuhan.

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — Three years ago, COVID-19 caused many states to implement shutdown orders and countries to ban international travel. While many things have evolved with the virus over the last few years, the United States economy is still on the rebound. “Three years ago, the governor said close businesses, so of course we […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted unanimously on Friday to declassify U.S. intelligence information about the origins of COVID-19, a sweeping show of bipartisan support near the third anniversary of the start of the deadly pandemic. The 419-0 vote was final approval of the bill, sending it to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law. […]

A recent nationwide survey co-conducted by University of Utah Health researchers found that about a quarter of parents misrepresented their child’s COVID-19 status or didn’t adhere to COVID-related guidelines during the pandemic.

When the pandemic started is easier to determine than when it will end.

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — An active duty servicemember stationed at Fort Bragg has been arrested and charged in a romantic scheme that targeted vulnerable people, U.S. Attorney Michael Easley said Friday. According to indictments, 33-year-old Sanda G. Frimpong and other conspirators engaged in elaborate scams by impersonating romantic love interests, diplomats, customs personnel, military personnel, […]

BEIJING (AP) — For the second day in a row, China on Wednesday dismissed U.S. suggestions that the COVID-19 pandemic may have been triggered by a virus that leaked from a Chinese laboratory. Responding to comments by FBI Director Christopher Wray, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said the involvement of the U.S. intelligence community was […]

Scientists have largely agreed the virus is the result of animal spillover, but policymakers have disagreed.

Nearly three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve learned a lot about the virus, and have developed vaccines and antiviral treatments that make the prospect of contracting the virus less deadly for most people. But one aspect of the virus that remains frustratingly mysterious, and scary to many, is the range of outcomes called “long COVID.”

Bell’s palsy describes an “unexplained episode of facial muscle weakness or paralysis” caused by damage to the facial nerve.

The district said that as of Sunday afternoon, at least 25 staff members — out of 42 drivers and office staff — will be out sick for the next several days.

The virus is evolving through a “continual game of cat and mouse between the virus and our immune systems,” an epidemiologist explained.

An increasing number of municipal, county and state governments are devising plans to spend federal coronavirus pandemic relief funds to eliminate residents’ medical debt and ease those debt burdens.

RALEIGH, N.C. (WGHP) – Four Republican representatives from the Piedmont Triad have filed a bill in the North Carolina House that would forbid the state from establishing or enforcing COVID-19 vaccine mandates. District 70 Rep. Brian Biggs (R-Trinity) along with District 59 Rep. Jon Hardister (R-Whitsett), the House majority whip, and Reps Donny Lambeth (R-Winston-Salem) […]

More than 56,000 COVID-19 rapid test kits are being recalled because they might not produce accurate results, according to the FDA.

COLLETON COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – Big news coming at the beginning of week four of the Alex Murdaugh murder trial: a source close to Murdaugh’s team tells News 2 that as of Monday, Murdaugh plans to take the stand in his defense. Murdaugh is accused of killing his wife Margaret and youngest son Paul at their family […]

Under the new guidelines, healthy children 6 months to 4 years old should receive a primary series of two doses of either the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech monovalent COVID-19 vaccine followed by a third dose of a bivalent vaccine.

Hundreds of thousands of students around the country disappeared from public schools during the pandemic and didn’t resume their studies elsewhere.

CORRECTION: This article has been updated to reflect that multiple Democrats joined Republicans in voting for the resolution. The Republican-controlled House on Wednesday passed a resolution that would immediately end the COVID-19 national emergency first declared in March 2020, brushing aside the Biden administration’s announcement that the declaration would expire in May. The joint resolution […]

The COVID-19 pandemic cost students months of learning and many fell behind in math and reading, a new study has found.