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Toe River Health Receives COVID-19 Vaccines Published: 19 January 2021 Toe River Health District has received more than 6000 COVID-19 vaccines to distribute across Avery, Mitchell and Yancey counties. High Country Press reports Diane Creek, Director, said the district has received 6675 doses combined of the Moderna vaccine, as of January 17. According to the report, Toe River Health District has only the Moderna vaccine available, which requires two does, one month apart. Toe River has vaccinated 759 individuals 75 years and older as well as their healthcare workers in Avery, 482 in Mitchell and 576 in Yancey. North Carolina is now making vaccines available to anyone age 65 and older and all health care workers, regardless of whether they are exposed to coronavirus patients. Avery, Mitchell and Yancey counties will begin inoculating its citizens age 65 and older beginning this week. ....
AVERY COUNTY â The COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Avery County on Monday, Dec. 21, with 600 doses set to be administered by the Avery County Health Department as prioritized by the stateâs vaccination plan. According to TRHD Director Diane Creek, the health district has begun immunizing those in the community who are most likely to be exposed to the virus as part of their job. The same process has begun taking place in Mitchell and Yancey counties as well, after Mitchell received 600 doses of the vaccine and Yancey received 500 doses last week. âWe will focus on group 1A from the stateâs priority chart. That includes front line workers, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), people who are doing Covid testing, staff who are doing the vaccinating. We will only have three employees from Avery County Health Department who will receive the vaccine. The rest of our staff will wait for a later group,â Creek said. ....
Legal marijuana in North Carolina? Task force recommends state look to legalizing the drug, follow others leads Staff Report editor@mountaintimes.com Dec 16, 2020 HIGH COUNTRY â While much of the focus was on the U.S. presidential race in the 2020 General Election, voters in five states also approved the legalization of marijuana, bringing the total to 36 states that have legalized it for medical use, if not recreational. Many states have gone through a step-by-step process toward legalization, starting with medicinal use and going up to regulated legalization. However, South Dakota went from illegal to totally legal in only one election. North Carolinaâs legalization efforts have stopped at allowing CBD hemp, a low-to-no-THC form of the plant. In the past 10 years, the stateâs stance on the still federally illegal drug has gone from the norm to an outlier, with neighboring Virginia even moving for legalization. With an already more tolerati ....