Davidson County to continue with Johnson & Johnson vaccine
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Davidson County Health Department will continue to administer the Johnson & Johnson vaccine despite the report of several patients in the Raleigh/Durham area having adverse reactions on Thursday.
Representatives from the health department state they are aware of the reports, which promoted some vaccine providers to halt dispensing of the J & J COVID-19 shot, but an investigation by the Center for Disease Control has determined the vaccine is safe to administer.
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“At this time the CDC recommends continuing dispensing of the J & J COVID-19 vaccine. Therefore, the Davidson County Health Department will continue with plans to provide the J & J vaccine at a clinic on Saturday, April 10 to those who made appointments earlier in the week,” said representatives from the Davidson County Health Departm
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Once you complete your vaccination for COVID-19, you can be worry-free from contracting the virus and don t need to wear a mask anymore, right? Wrong.
Just like when the pandemic began in Davidson County almost one year ago when the first positive COVID-19 case was reported here on March 18, some misconceptions persist. Davidson County Health Department officials want to arm the public with the most up-to-date and scientifically backed information to keep the public safe and positive case numbers in a continued decline.
Recently, Davidson County was placed in the lowest level, code yellow, in the county alert system by the North Carolina Health and Human Services because of a significant decrease in the testing positivity rate and the number of new COVID-19 cases.
Davidson County downgraded to yellow on statewide COVID county alert system
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Davidson County has been placed in the lowest level, code yellow, in the county alert system by the North Carolina Health and Human Services due to a significant decrease in the testing positivity rate and the number of new COVID-19 cases.
As of March 12, Davidson County had 117 new cases per 100,000 residents in the past 14 days and the positivity rate, which is the percentage of COVID-19 test out of all test given that came back positive, is 5.3 percent. The statewide positivity rate is 3.7 percent as of Friday.
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Randolph County is also seeing a slow in the time it takes to fill vaccine appointments. In the beginning, of course, it was very quickly that we could fill those appointments when we got vaccine, but again we are getting more vaccine in now than we were at the beginning, but we are also finding as of late, maybe the last couple weeks, that it takes longer to fill our appointments, said Randolph County Health Director Susan Hayes.
Hayes said they will continue to follow guidance from the state, but because of the slow down in demand, they re ready to now move into Group 4.
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