Winter weather across the country and icy conditions expected in the Charlotte-area are impacting thousands of people waiting to get their coronavirus vaccinations.
North Carolina opened up a new category of eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccine last week. In many ways the rollout of the vaccine has been swift. But as WFAE’s Tommy Tomlinson says in his On My Mind commentary, it can’t come fast enough.
Mecklenburg County last week held a vaccination clinic at the Hindu Center in east Charlotte.
The Mecklenburg County Health Department holds large, heavily publicized COVID-19 vaccination events at places like Bojangles Coliseum.
But the county is also doing something else: Small events in low-income communities, where the county relies on word-of-mouth to draw people. It doesn’t promote them with a media blitz.
One was a clinic last Saturday at the Hindu Center in east Charlotte.
A large meeting room was filled with tables for health care professionals to administer the vaccine to 250 members of the city’s immigrant community: Venezuelan-Americans. Bhutanese-Americans. Indian-Americans.