Some doctors in N.C. are encouraging individuals to get vaccinated against measles, as there have been more than 160 cases in nine states so far this year.

Dr. Mandy Cohen is director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but she will be leaving office in January after about 18 months in the job. President-elect Donald Trump on Friday night said he picked Dave Weldon, a former Congressman from Florida, to be the agency鈥檚 next chief.

CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen is making recommendations about when to get your updated Covid and flu shots.

COVID-19 is here to stay, and CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen is making recommendations about when to get your updated Covid and flu shots. Prepare with us, and Dr. Cohen, before a predicted surge of these and other respiratory viruses this fall. Plus, Dr. Cohen reflects on her first year leading the CDC.

The newest COVID-19 vaccine was approved this week. And unlike previous approvals, the rollout for this one will be significantly different.

For the latest week of data, there were 435 hospital admissions for COVID-19, up nearly four-fold from a low point of 117 during the week of June 24. Despite the increase, hospitalizations are still well below the numbers seen both earlier this year and at the height of the pandemic.

Government agencies, schools and universities would no longer be able to require COVID-19 vaccines under a bill that passed an N.C. House committee Tuesday.

Cooper signed an executive order Monday terminating the emergency at the end of the day. He already announced last month it would end now because the state budget law contained health care provisions that would allow his administration to keep responding robustly to the virus.

NCDHHS officials say the two-dose Novavax vaccine will soon be available to North Carolinians over the age of 18 who have not yet been vaccinated.

Bavarian Nordic will deliver 2.5 million doses of its vaccine beginning later this year, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.