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North Dakota officials satisfied with early vaccine rollout, see room to improve
As in other parts of the country, the first weeks of vaccine distribution in North Dakota have encountered some unanticipated delays. But immunization experts said the state has much more capacity so scale up in the New Year. Written By: Adam Willis | ×
Dr. Jeffrey Sather, chief of staff at Trinity Health in Minot, N.D., gets his first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, Dec. 18. B. Peter Ladendorf / Trinity Health
BISMARCK As federal officials conceded missed benchmarks in the initial phase of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout this week, public health leaders in North Dakota commended the state’s relative success while acknowledging a need to pick up the pace in January.
Dec 19, 2020
Dr. Joshua Wynne, vice president for Health Affairs, Dean of the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences and North Dakota Chief Health Strategist
Dr. Paul Carson, director of the North Dakota State University Center for Research Immunization and Education and consultant on the North Dakota Department of Health’s pandemic response
Dirk Wilke, North Dakota interim State Health Officer
Something remarkable has occurred in North Dakota over the past two months – we’ve gone from being the state with the worst COVID-19 numbers in the country (when adjusted for population) to one of the few states with plunging numbers of new and active cases. The reason for this dramatic turnaround is clear – it is because our fellow citizens in the state decided to exercise personal responsibility and do those simple things that we know are effective in limiting the spread of the virus like wearing masks as appropriate, washing one’s hands, keeping our di