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Lights lined the reflecting pool between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. on the evening before President Joe Biden s inauguration, Jan 19, 2021, in a memorial to lives lost to the coronavirus pandemic.
The news during 2020 was filled with tragic scenes of families visiting their senior loved ones through windows, health care professionals breaking down over the lonely deaths of patients in intensive care wards, and funerals carried out without families receiving the caresses and comfort of loved ones.
There have been some points of hope. For one thing, the Tar Heel state still experienced more births than deaths overall last year, according to provisional resident data provided by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. In total, 115,076 residents of North Carolina were born, while 87,987 community members died.
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About 1,000 employees of Union County Public Schools are getting vaccinated against COVID-19 Friday and Saturday, an option that s not yet available to most frontline workers in the state.
The school district started working with the Union County Health Department earlier this month to schedule vaccinations for staff who are 50 and older. That’s almost 2,000 of the district’s 5,000 employees, according to UCPS spokeswoman Tahira Stalberte.
In mid-January, North Carolina changed its priority list to put people 65 and older ahead of younger frontline workers, including teachers and support staff. Stalberte said the district and the health department agreed to stick with the plan that had already been laid out for school staff.
Central Ohio health departments prepare to start public COVID vaccinations next week Max Filby and Eric Lagatta, The Columbus Dispatch © Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch Franklin County assistant health commissioner Alexandria Jones gives a COVID-19 vaccine to Whitehall fire chief Preston Moore on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020. Franklin County Public Health received 4300 doses of the Moderna vaccine and can administer up to 540 per day to those in the first phase of vaccine distribution, which includes EMS responders.
Some central Ohioans may soon be able to sign up for their first of two COVID-19 shots as local health departments move into another phase of vaccinations next week.