Protect our community. How Black leaders are tackling hesitancy over COVID vaccine Aaron Sánchez-Guerra and Brian Murphy, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Jan. 15 DURHAM The day that Duke University Hospital received its first shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine last month, Faye Williams sat down, rolled up her left sleeve and made history.
Williams, a nurse at Duke clinics screening people for the virus, was the first frontline worker and the first Black person to receive the vaccine in the Triangle region.
A month and her second vaccine dose later, Williams spoke on a COVID-19 vaccine information panel held last weekend at St. Joseph s AME Church in Durham s historically Black neighborhood of Hayti to promote the vaccine to skeptical African Americans.
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December has brought a new normal in daily COVID-19 cases in North Carolina, with the average 5,652 new daily cases more than 1,100 above the record for the previous nine months of the pandemic, 4,514 set on Nov. 22.
And as cases have skyrocketed, including the new record of 8,444 on Dec. 18, the number of North Carolinians dying from the virus have also reached new highs.
But an increase in deaths from the most recent spike in cases is likely weeks away, according to state health officials.