Updated December 15, 2020 7:48 p.m. EST
By Amanda Lamb and Leslie Moreno, WRAL reporters
Chapel Hill, N.C. UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill received its first shipment of 2,925 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech s coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday and started vaccinating staff there and at a Hillsborough facility.
Cape Fear Valley Health also received vaccine shipments Tuesday morning at its flagship hospital in Fayetteville and its Hoke Healthcare facility. System officials said they expected a shipment to Bladen County Hospital by the end of the day. A vaccine is a great start for us, but we must continue to stay the course, continue to wear masks, wash your hands, practice physical distance, said Dr. Roxie Wells, president of Hoke Healthcare, who was among the first to get vaccinated after the doses arrived.
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Updated December 11, 2020 7:44 p.m. EST
By Leslie Moreno, WRAL multimedia journalist
Raleigh, N.C. Seventy-two nurses received their pins in a drive-thru ceremony Friday upon graduating from Wake Technical Community College, becoming the newest faces on the front line of the coronavirus battle.
Recognizing that licensure exams will take longer to administer during the pandemic because fewer testing sites are open and students will have to take it individually in order to maintain physical distancing, the North Carolina Board of Nursing instituted “graduate registered nurse” status, allowing nursing graduates to go straight to work while waiting to take the exam.