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By TREVOR DUNNELL | The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C. | Published: December 29, 2020
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (Tribune News Service) The inaugural vaccination phase has begun for frontline healthcare workers at Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune, N.C., as they were the first to receive the facility s initial shipment of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine this week. Officials say they are unable to disclose the number of doses the Department of Defense sent them or the number of doses administered on a daily basis due to security reasons. The doses were received over Christmas break.
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Personnel on Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Cherry Point were given their first round the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday after doses arrived at Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point a day earlier.
U.S. Navy Sailor LT. Anthony Bleyer Jr., a physician in the respiratory clinic, and Michael Labelle, a health benefits provider, both assigned to Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point, were the first to receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, according to an official U.S. Marine Corps photo that was released on Wednesday.
Additional personnel photographed as being among the first to receive the vaccine at Cherry Point were Walter DaVila, a Services Officer with Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and Josh Boudreau, Assistant Chief for MCAS Cherry Point Fire and Emergency Services.
The vaccine showed up at the right time for Onslow County.
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, county officials have attempted to educate residents about the 3W s (wear, wait, wash) but after watching the case counts rise, those efforts look to have been partly ignored.
On Thursday, Onslow Memorial Hospital announced they had received 975 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Nurses began administering the vaccine to employees on Friday as the county is in desperate need of a game-changer in the fight against the virus.
Since Dec. 1, the daily positive case rate has tripled. Officials announced on Dec. 2 there were 173 new positive cases. On Dec. 16, the county announced 566 positive cases. Onslow releases case updates every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Cases are counted in what is called a rolling 7-day average meaning the number is based on the day before.