NHRMC Physician Group Primary Care practices will start administering Covid-19 vaccines. (Port City Daily/File)
SOUTHEASTERN NC NHRMC Physician Group Primary Care practices have opened Covid-19 vaccine appointments for their patients 75 years and older, according to a press release from New Hanover Regional Medical Center.
The physician group has the vaccine available at multiple offices and locations, including New Hanover Medical Group, Coastal Family Medicine, NHRMC Physician Specialists Internal Medicine Specialists/Care Team, Wrightsville Beach Family Medicine, Pender Primary Care, and Jacksonville Primary Care.
New Hanover County Health and Human Services (NHCHHS) will provide 1,950 doses to start.
“By transferring a portion of our vaccines to the hospital, it will further Public Health’s efforts to get the vaccine to some of the most vulnerable in our community, as quickly as possible,” said Donna Fayko, director of NHCHHS.
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…
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Gadsden: The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in Alabama topped 2,800 this week, as recent days have shown a steady climb and new record high inpatient counts – 2,804 on Tuesday – as the surge in cases continues. Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, the University of Alabama’s Division of Infectious Diseases director, said Alabama now is third in the nation in COVID-19 hospitalizations per capita, behind Nevada and Arizona. She said Alabama is sixth in the nation in the number of COVID-19 cases per capita, after falling out of the top 10. On Christmas Eve, the number hospitalized was 2,458 across the state; on Christmas Day and on Saturday, it was 2,516, according to statistics published by BamaTracker. On Sunday, the number rose to 2,631; and it jumped significantly by Monday, to 2,802 people hospitalized.
New Hanover Co. reports 14 additional COVID-19-related deaths since Dec. 23 COVID-19 vaccine (Source: wect) By WECT Staff | December 30, 2020 at 1:36 PM EST - Updated December 30 at 1:36 PM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - New Hanover County Public Health officials say they are seeing a surge of daily COVID-19 cases in recent weeks.
According to the county, 1,158 new cases have been reported over the last two weeks while the health department has been informed of 14 deaths of county residents connected to COVID-19 since Dec. 23.
“The 14 individuals who died were all at risk of severe illness because of age (ranging in age from 60 to 90 years old), underlying health conditions or both. This brings the total number of New Hanover County residents who have died from COVID-19 to 91,” the county stated in a news release.