The race to vaccinate in North Carolina sees a slight shift Friday in Wake County. County leaders are taking steps to get the vaccine to patients, instead of waiting for patients to get to the vaccine.
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Beginning Wednesday, all frontline essential workers are eligible to get a vaccine thanks to Gov. Roy Cooper announcing that the state was moving up the timeline by one week.
The move was spurred by increasing vaccine supply, including the addition of the single-dose Johnson and Johnson version, which received FDA Emergency Use Authorization during the weekend.
The expanded list of those now eligible for vaccines includes workers in critical manufacturing, education (including college instructors), essential goods, food and agriculture, government and community services, health care and public health, public safety, and transportation.
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NC officials call Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine a game-changer. When can you get it? Adam Wagner, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Mar. 2 State and local health officials are deciding where to send the new one-shot COVID-19 vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson, now that it has received emergency use authorization from the federal government.
Whether it will go to vaccinate teachers or build up vaccine supply in doctor s offices, North Carolina health leaders say the vaccine now the third in use in the United States comes at a critical moment of the coronavirus pandemic. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is going to change everything. It s going to help us end the pandemic, said Noel Brewer, a UNC-Chapel Hill behavioral scientist, in an interview with The News & Observer. Brewer researches why people take vaccines and advises the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services.