NC isn t checking immigration status as it offers COVID vaccine but residents have fears Aaron Sánchez-Guerra and Sophie Kasakove, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Jan. 23 As a housekeeper, Ana Huerta has spent the pandemic disinfecting and cleaning surfaces in homes and factories in the Triangle and is unable to work from home.
Huerta, a Mexican immigrant, wants to be vaccinated to avoid bringing the coronavirus home to her two small children, but she has worried that lacking legal immigration status could prevent her from getting the COVID-19 vaccine. It would make no sense to not vaccinate someone over legal status if the point is to get rid of the virus, Huerta, 38, said in Spanish to The News & Observer. I think that would be selfish, or even racist.
RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) Wake County health officials met virtual Thursday morning to discuss rising COVID-19 metrics and vaccine administration plans. During the first two weeks of December alone, cases increased 63%. And we surpassed 700 cases in a single day for the first time, said Dr. Nicole Mushonga, the Wake County Associate Medical Director and Epidemiology Program Director.
North Carolina s COVID-19 county alert system labels Wake County as orange, which means substantial community spread. The five days with the highest case count in Wake County have happened in December.
Donald Gintzig, the President and CEO of WakeMed Hospitals, noted they are seeing more COVID-19 patients now than at the peak of the summer, though they still have capacity.