The News & Observer
Secretary of the NC Department Health and Human Services Dr. Mandy Cohen and Gov. Roy Cooper, at left, watch as Dr. Aidin Ashoori, receives a COVID-19 vaccine from LPN Gerda Lambre at UNC Health in Chapel Hill on Thursday where frontline health care workers are among some of the first recipients of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
CHAPEL HILL Dr. Aidin Ashoori didn’t wince a bit as a needle was stuck in his upper left arm carrying a vaccine that Americans hope will help end the COVID-19 pandemic.
Looking on was Gov. Roy Cooper and the state Secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. Mandy Cohen. They had come to the UNC Medical Center on Thursday to watch doctors, nurses and other front-line workers get inoculated against a virus that has killed more than 6,000 North Carolinians and strained hospitals across the state.