President-elect Joe Bidens plan comes at a time when the nation needs all the help it can get fighting the coronavirus. More than 4,200 people in the United States died of COVID this past Tuesday, a new daily record high. The president-elects plan includes a national vaccination program, setting up community vaccination sites nationwide, scaling up testing and tracing, investing in high-quality treatments, providing paid sick leave to contain spread of the virus, and addressing health disparities. His proposal suggests investing $20 billion in a national vaccination program. Right now, much of the vaccine rollout has been left to the states, which have struggled to get vaccines into arms at a faster pace because they dont have enough money or people. That people problem could be addressed by a funding emergency hiring for a community health worker program Bidens putting forward, aiming to cover 100,000 public health workers.That would nearly triple the countrys comm
The Forsyth County Department of Public Health offered Saturday an online option for COVID-19 application appointments that opened and closed in a 7½-hour window.
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The former Sears retail store at Hanes Mall owned by Novant Health Inc. is going to serve as a COVID-19 mass-vaccination site for Forsyth County, the health system said Friday.
The goal is to open the Hanes Mall site on Jan. 25, said Dr. Pam Oliver, president of Novant s Physician Network.Â
Novant said the site could provide up to 7,000 vaccinations a day â if it s able to get a consistent supply of vaccine from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services.
The doses would be provided by appointment only. Oliver said the current plan is a weekday schedule of either 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. or 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., again depending on weekly allocations from DHHS.