Walgreens Will Offer COVID Vaccines at Eleven Durham Stores
Durham residents will now be able to receive COVID-19 vaccinations at various Walgreens locations across the county, but they ll have to make an appointment.
On Friday, during a meeting of Durham s Recovery and Renewal task force, Durham County health director Rodney Jenkins said the pharmacy chain will administer 100 vaccines per week at business locations throughout the county.
âWeâre certainly happy about 1,100 vaccines,â Jenkins said.
Vaccine supplies are limited globally, nationally, and locally, Jenkins noted, and as a result, will affect the county s ability to get it out to the community.
COVID-19 metrics are slowly dropping following increases stemming from holiday travel over the past two months. We re certainly more than a month past the holidays now, so that helps. We knew that the holidays were a significant risk point for us, and we certainly saw that bear out in the numbers, said Katie Galbraith, the President of Duke Regional Hospital.
In early January, Galbraith said Duke hospitals had 123 COVID-19 patients requiring hospitalizations. As of Monday, that number had dropped to 100. We ve definitely seen a slight decline in our numbers but the numbers are still high, Galbraith said.
Fewer patients requiring specialized care can help alleviate staffing and scheduling concerns.
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As COVID cases grow, NC hospitals are once again delaying non-emergency procedures Richard Stradling, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Jan. 6 RALEIGH Last March, as hospitals in New York and Italy were being overrun with COVID-19 patients, hospitals in North Carolina canceled non-emergency surgeries and other procedures to free up beds, workers and supplies to battle the coronavirus.
Now, as they struggle to keep ahead of the growing number of COVID-19 patients in the state, some North Carolina hospitals are again delaying procedures, though in a more limited and strategic way.
Some hard hit hospitals have halted so-called elective surgeries or stopped scheduling future ones. Others, such as WakeMed, are reviewing their surgical schedules daily to determine which cases can be pushed back a few days or a couple of weeks to keep from filling too many beds at once, said Dr. Chris DeRienzo, the chief medical officer.