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Talk to Us: COVID Questions. BPR’s Helen Chickering brings us this week’s answer.
This week s question comes from Jeremy DeJournett who lives in Buncombe county.
“Are there any plans in Buncombe for making sure unused doses get into arms at the end of the day, regardless of group? For example, if one of the vials has 50 doses left at 5pm, will it get tossed, or are vaccination sites allowing walk-ins to wait for that? If so, where can we find information about this?”
Good question. We did some digging and found all vaccine providers have a plan to get those extra doses to eligible individuals. To find out how Buncombe County handles COVID vaccine extras, we checked in with Buncombe County Health and Human Services Public Information Officer Stacey Wood.
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Racism is a public health crisis in Buncombe County.
County health and government officials testified to that fact in a pair of resolutions passed this summer promising action to address glaring health inequities as the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted those differences across the country.
Six and eight months after those resolutions were signed, on the tail end of a spike in COVID-19 cases and during a once-in-a-generation vaccination effort, those on the front lines say it s a promising start, but there s still plenty to do. We re looking at systemic change across all county government, said Stoney Blevins, Buncombe County Health and Human Services Director, who also noted that in July, the county s Justice Resource Advisory Council proclaimed racism a public safety emergency as well, a month before every county commissioner voted in favor of their resolution.
A big part of getting past the COVID-19 pandemic is getting vaccinated.
In the second of a two-part series on the COVID-19 vaccine, Buncombe County hosted a roundtable discussion on everything from what a vaccine does and is to how to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Feb. 10 talk was a joint effort by Buncombe County Health and Human Services and the YWCA of Asheville moderated by Ameiris Lavender, chief program officer for the YWCA.
The hourlong Facebook Live discussion brought together fourth-year medical student Anneliesse Duncan, Buncombe County Public Health Nurse Amparo Acosta and Monica Dillingham, a pharmacist with Buncombe County.