Nohora Bejarano receives her COVID-19 vaccination during a drive-through clinic run by Atrium Health in Charlotte on Tuesday morning. Photo: Atrium Health
Since North Carolina received its first allocation of the vaccine against COVID-19, North Carolina Health News has been inundated with queries from readers as to where they can find information on getting vaccinated.
As of early January, the state is in the early phases of the vaccine rollout, vaccinating people in groups 1a, which is health care workers fighting COVID-19 and long-term care staff and residents, and 1b, adults 75 years or older and frontline essential workers.
As manufacturing and distribution speed up, the state will proceed into different phases. Some counties will move into different phases at different times depending on the number of health care workers, older adults, prisoners, teachers and other priority groups.
New Hanover County received about 4,800 doses of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine a few days before Christmas. Over 1,300 doses have been administered. (Port…
Gyms prepare for a new year and new members during COVID-19 pandemic
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WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - As a new year approaches, many of us are thinking about our resolutions. Often, that includes better health and fitness, which leaves gyms packed at the beginning of the year.
But it may look different at gyms and fitness centers this year as we continue to battle the coronavirus. Gyms are just one of the many businesses that have struggled in 2020, but trainers say they’re trying to make it work.
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Panza Allen McNeill receives New Hanover County’s first dose of the Moderna vaccine Tuesday afternoon. (Port City Daily photo/Courtesy New Hanover County)
NEW HANOVER COUNTY Panza Allen McNeill, a 19-year New Hanover County Public Health nurse, received the first dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine in the county Tuesday afternoon.
The county administered its first doses of the Moderna vaccine to frontline health workers Tuesday who interact with Covid-19 patients as part of their daily job.
“The Covid-19 pandemic continues to be the fight of our lives, but the arrival of the vaccine gives a glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel,” Allen McNeill said in a county press