The county health department received its first allocation of the Moderna vaccine at 2,800 doses.
Among the 10 county officials receiving the vaccination were Tim Black, the emergency services director, and nurse Amanda Welborn.
The department s initial doses will be administered using the guidelines set for Phase 1A of the stateâs vaccine rollout plan.
Those receiving those initial vaccinations will be health-care employees working directly with COVID-19 patients and long-term care residents and staff. People can find out about the county s vaccine doses at www.forsyth.cc/PublicHealth.
Meanwhile, Novant Health Inc. infectious disease expert Dr. David Priest said Tuesday that more than 3,400 Novant employees have been vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine.
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Wilkes Countyâs first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine is expected next week, but local and state officials still donât know how much is coming.
Meanwhile, 85,800 doses of the Pfizer vaccine are expected at 53 hospitals across the state by the end of this week. North Carolinaâs first shipment â 1,925 doses â arrived at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem about 7:30 a.m. Monday. Vaccination of employees there started Monday.
The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced the number of doses expected at each of the 53 hospitals this week, including 975 doses at Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital in Elkin.