This week she added a stop at a Kenly church to get her COVID-19 vaccine. I ve been trying to keep from getting it, she said.
Thigpen got the vaccine at the UNC Health s roving mobile vaccination clinic. This week, the vaccination event was held at the Temple of Praise on East Second Street in Kenly. Next week it will shift to the Praise Temple Apostolic Faith Church in Clayton. I think the community is following real well, said Pastor James Neal, who has led the Temple of Praise for more than 30 years.
He s a veteran and went to the Durham VA to get his shot too.
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February 18, 2021
Nurse practitioner Monika Trogdon, left, asks Shirley Hill some questions before giving her a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine shot at a UNC Health mobile clinic at Temple of Praise Church of Deliverance in Kenly, North Carolina, Feb. 17, 2021. RNS photo by Yonat Shimron
(RNS) Shirley Hill is used to needles. A diabetic, she pricks herself twice a day with an insulin pen. Still, she was a little nervous when she rolled up her sleeve for the Moderna vaccine on Wednesday (Feb. 17).