Novant Health takes delivery of 7,000 COVID-19 vaccinations
Health care workers get the first injections
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Novant Health received its first batch of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Thursday. The first injections went to health workers at Novant facilities in Charlotte, Winston-Salem and Bolivia in Brunswick County.
More COVID-19 vaccines have arrived in Charlotte.
Novant Health received its first batch – approximately 7,000 doses – of the Food and Administration-approved Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19. North Carolina is responsible for determining supply distribution and Novant Health has enough freezers to store at least 500,000 doses. Staff underwent extensive training as well as a day of mock distribution and administration while first front-line health care workers received the vaccine.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Dec. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Following the arrival of multiple ultralow freezers, extensive training of its team members and a successful day of mock distribution and administration, Novant Health inoculated its first front-line health care workers today, using the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
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The integrated health care system is an approved vaccination administration site and will distribute vaccines at three of its facilities in North Carolina: Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center in Charlotte and Novant Health Brunswick Medical Center on the North Carolina coast.
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Atrium Health has so far seen “no severe reactions” to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in its employees who have been vaccinated, Dr. Lewis McCurdy, an infectious disease physician at Atrium, told reporters on Thursday. Two health care workers in Alaska reportedly experienced allergic reactions to the shot and had to get emergency treatment after being vaccinated on Wednesday. One of the cases was described as severe.
In Charlotte, McCurdy said Atrium employees have reported sore arms, fatigue and muscle aches after being vaccinated but “nothing significant.”
“We are watching people,” McCurdy said. “There are obviously requirements around watching people for a certain period of time after the immunization to make sure they’re safe.”