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Buncombe County Health and Human Services is administering its first round of COVID-19 vaccines.   Paramedics, firefighters, and public health staff working at the testing and vaccinations sites were given their first dose of the Moderna vaccine on Tuesday -  in the two part COVID vaccination series. According to a statement from BCHHS,  Vaccinators will administer the COVID vaccine to over 200 first responders and public health staff this week. “Receiving the vaccine on Monday was a welcomed and wonderful holiday gift, said Buncombe County Public Health Director Stacie Saunders.  We are a part of history right now, and what this vaccine represents now and in the future is significant in so many ways. We still have months of hard work that will require all of us to continue to follow the existing precautions as we move to get more and more people vaccinated.” 

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