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Which Local Health Department Employees Must Be Vaccinated under the New CMS Rule?

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An In-Depth Look at Medical Exemptions from COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

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Will President Biden’s Emergency Vaccination-or-Weekly-Test Mandate Apply to Local Government Employers?

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COVID-19 and the Workplace Part 3: OSHA’s Healthcare Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS)

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COVID-19 and the Workplace Part 1: Vaccine Mandates, Vaccine Incentives and More

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COVID-19 Law & Policy Updates

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One Year of COVID-19 in North Carolina

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Using Web-Based Scheduling Applications to Make Appointments for COVID-19 Vaccination Events: HHS Issues Notice of Enforcement Discretion

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COVID-19 Updates and News Roundup

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Taking Local Action to Control COVID-19: What Can a North Carolina Local Health Department Do?

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How Does North Carolina Law Provide for Communicable Disease Control Measures for Emerging Diseases Like COVID-19?

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New Legislation: Disclosing Communicable Disease Information to Law Enforcement to Prevent or Lessen a Serious or Imminent Threat

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Disclosing Information about Employees with COVID-19

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A Stay at Home Order is Not a Quarantine: The Case for Semantic Precision

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Releasing County-Specific Data about COVID-19

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Governor Cooper’s COVID-19 Statewide Stay at Home Order: What Effect Does It Have On County and City Emergency Restrictions?

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Disclosing Information about People with COVID-19 to First Responders

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Can Counties and Cities Order “Stay-at-Home”?

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COVID-19: Who Has What Emergency Authorities at the Local Level?

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Isolation, Quarantine, and Social Distancing: What’s the Difference?

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Resources for Reliable Information on Coronavirus in North Carolina

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How Will We Know if COVID-19 is in North Carolina? A Look at the State’s Communicable Disease Reporting Laws

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Preparing Local Government Workplaces for the New Coronavirus

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Resources for Local Health Departments on the New Law Requiring Reports of Juvenile Crime Victims to Law Enforcement

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Syringe Exchange Programs and Land Use Zoning

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Significant Change to North Carolina’s Rabies Law

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UPDATED: Blood Exposures and NC Communicable Disease Law

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Rabies Prevention and Control: Integrating Recent Research into North Carolina’s Legal Framework

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Zapping Zika in North Carolina

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Service Animals in Government Buildings

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Legislature Limits Government Water Utilities’ Authority to Mandate Connections

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New Limitation on Animal Control Ordinances

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Public Health Law Update: Back-to-School Edition

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Keeping the Public Informed about Communicable Diseases

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Should a Local Government Be a HIPAA Hybrid Entity?

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Delegating Local Health Director Legal Powers & Duties

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May Unimmunized Children be Excluded from School in North Carolina?

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Ebola and the Law of Isolation and Quarantine in North Carolina

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How Does North Carolina Law Address Outbreaks of Communicable Disease?

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Regulating Electronic Cigarettes in North Carolina, Part 2: Local Regulation

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Regulating Electronic Cigarettes in North Carolina, Part 1: Federal and State Regulation

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You’ve Consolidated. Do You Know Who Your Local Health Director Is?

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The N.C. Regulatory Reform Act of 2013 and Local Environmental Health Programs

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Health Reform: Role of County Human Services Agencies in Enrollment

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Preempted? Let Me Count The Ways.

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Sidewalk Dining: Some Questions and Answers

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What is a County Advisory Committee on Health and Who Has to Have One?

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An Update on Recent Changes for Local Human Services Agencies

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Animal Control: Who is Responsible?

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Smoking Law Update: N.C. Court of Appeals Clarifies the Private Club Exemption

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Consolidated Human Services Agencies and the NC Local Health Department Accreditation Program

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How Should Local Health Departments Respond to Requests for Medical Records for the Deferred Action Immigration Program?

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Recent Developments in Organization and Governance of Local Human Services Agencies

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What is the Territorial Jurisdiction of a Board of Health Rule Regulating Smoking?

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Organization and Governance of Social Services: New Options for Counties

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Two Implications of the Supreme Court’s Health Care Decision for North Carolina

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County Commissioners and Local Boards of Health: What Would Pending Legislation Allow, and What Would it Mean?

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Consolidated Human Services Agencies

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Reporting Patient Injuries to Law Enforcement: It’s Not Just Gunshot Wounds

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NC Court of Appeals Upholds Application of State Smoking Ban to For-Profit Private Clubs

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Legislation Affecting Environmental Health Programs

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Organizational Options for Local Public Health Agencies in North Carolina, Part 2: Proposed Legislation

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Organizational Options for Local Public Health Agencies in North Carolina, Part 1: Current Law

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What Happens if the Bed Bugs Bite? Public Health’s Legal Remedies for Bedbug Infestations

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Flu Vaccines for Health Care Workers

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2010 Public Health Legislation: Vaccines and Pimiento Cheese

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Boards of Health and Conflicts of Interest

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Blood Exposures and Disease Control Law

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Does North Carolina’s New Smoking Ban Apply to your Country Club?

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Local Smoking Regulation: Should You Adopt a Health Rule or an Ordinance?

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Controlling H1N1 Flu in North Carolina

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Smoking: What Is A Restaurant?