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Some health departments and hospitals canceled appointments after receiving no additional vaccine doses this week.
Brian Gordon
USA TODAY NETWORK
After exhausting their vaccine supplies and receiving few, if any, new doses from the state, many local health departments and hospitals in North Carolina are struggling this week to administer COVID-19 vaccines.
Some have been forced to cancel scheduled vaccination appointments, a move health officials fear could further erode public confidence in a vaccine rollout already marked by delays and uncertainties.
“It undermines their trust in us locally, and that is probably the biggest loss of all of this,” Onslow County Health Director Kristen Richmond-Hoover said. She estimated her department has canceled or rescheduled around 1,600 appointments after Onslow County received fewer-than-expected doses this week from the state health department.