Talk to Us: COVID Questions. BPR’s Helen Chickering brings us this week’s answer.
This week s question comes from Jeremy DeJournett who lives in Buncombe county.
“Are there any plans in Buncombe for making sure unused doses get into arms at the end of the day, regardless of group? For example, if one of the vials has 50 doses left at 5pm, will it get tossed, or are vaccination sites allowing walk-ins to wait for that? If so, where can we find information about this?”
Good question. We did some digging and found all vaccine providers have a plan to get those extra doses to eligible individuals. To find out how Buncombe County handles COVID vaccine extras, we checked in with Buncombe County Health and Human Services Public Information Officer Stacey Wood.