By Sarah Krueger, WRAL Durham reporter, & Gilbert Baez, WRAL Fayetteville reporter
Hillsborough, N.C. Three weeks after state health officials started cataloging the spread of coronavirus in individual counties through a color-coded alert system, only 18 of North Carolina s 100 counties remain in the lowest yellow zone, including Orange County.
While nearly half of the state is now in the red zone, with critical levels of viral spread and another third are rated orange with substantial spread, Orange County and the others still shaded in yellow on the map have managed to maintain better control of the virus locally as the number of infections and hospitalizations soar statewide.
North Carolina will receive 85,800 doses of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine once federal regulators grant emergency authorization to distribute it, but after that, it's unclear how the state's mass vaccination plan will unfold, officials said Thursday.
N.C. health officials say two coronavirus vaccine doses needed for protection
N.C. preparing to distribute COVID-19 vaccine By WBTV Web Staff | December 10, 2020 at 10:49 AM EST - Updated December 10 at 7:44 PM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - North Carolina health officials provided a deeper look at distribution plans for the COVID-19 vaccine Thursday, saying that two doses of the vaccine will be needed for protection.
NCDHHS Secretary Mandy Cohen said “we will soon have the tool we have been waiting for,” while discussing the vaccine, side effects and the distribution plan. The vaccine creates the antibody the body will use in case it later comes in contact with the virus, Cohen said.
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