The former House minority leader is set to join the state Court of Appeals. A Wake County state senator who considered a run for U.S. Congress also resigned from a seat he recently won.
Rep. Darren Jackson becomes the second Wake County Democrat to announce he’s leaving the General Assembly as the 2021 session is set to convene. Gov. Roy Cooper picked Jackson to fill the Court of Appeals seat left open by Republican Supreme Court Justice-elect Phil Berger Jr. State Sen. Sam Searcy said he was resigning to pursue other opportunities.
Berger defeated Democratic Appeals Court Judge Lucy Inman by 71,000 votes. Berger will become one of three Republicans on the seven-member court.
NC coronavirus update December 17: FDA plans to OK emergency use authorization for Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday
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Updated December 17, 2020 6:42 p.m. EST
By Adam Owens, WRAL anchor/reporter
Raleigh, N.C. Most healthy adults in Wake County will likely not get a coronavirus vaccine until late spring or summer, local health experts said Thursday.
Meanwhile, the virus is raging in the county, with more than 7,400 new infections reported in November. Associate Medical Director Dr. Nicole Mushonga said the county is on pace to top that record in December.
Daily cases increased 63 percent in the first two weeks of December and have now topped 700 a day for the first time, Mushonga said. There is a lot of concern about a spike in cases after the holiday season, said Matt Calabria, chairman of the Wake County Board of Commissioners, which got a local vaccine timeline from doctors and other experts on Thursday.