This article first appeared on North Carolina Health News and is republished here under a Creative Commons license. Even as COVID cases continue to bubble up around North Carolina as the new BA.5 ...

Ever since the start of human history, being normal seems to have been defined as being identical to everyone else. Similarly, multiple dictionaries have defined normal as “conforming to a type, ...

Most of the country no longer needs to mask up in public, according to the most recent guidance from the CDC. But those loosened restrictions don't apply to at least 7 million people nationwide who ...

I have a mask. My daughter-in-law made it for me. I wear it whenever I go out in public (which isn’t all that often any more, actually). In a study based on cellphone location data, it was reported ...