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The state Senate has cleared Republican-sponsored legislation â in a bipartisan vote â that would require parental consent for 12- to 17-year-olds to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
Senators voted 42-0 Tuesday in favor of House Bill 96, which began as legislation to expand the number of vaccines and medications that pharmacists would be allowed to administer.
The bill has been returned to the state House, where members can choose to accept the Senate addition of the parental consent language or reject it.
Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper briefly discussed the revamped HB96 following a July 22 of the vaccination site for the Forsyth Department of Public Health.
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RALEIGH â North Carolina received more than $4.9 million federal funds for small rural hospitals in the state to provide COVID-19 testing and mitigation, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced on July 30. The program will provide increased COVID-19 testing to rural populations ensuring an equitable distribution across the state.
Nineteen hospitals will receive up to $258,376 to increase COVID-19 testing efforts, expand access to testing in rural communities and expand the range of COVID-19 mitigation activities to meet community needs. All 19 hospitals have fewer than 50 beds or are critical access hospitals.
âThis funding is key in providing an equitable response to COVID-19 in our rural communities. Rural hospitals are well-positioned as trusted health care providers in their communities to encourage COVID-19 vaccination and testing, especially in places where many people feel uncertain about getting vaccinated,â said Maggie Sauer, Dir