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Some NC schools have begun vaccinating staff; What s Henderson County s plan?
While most teachers have to wait for their COVID-19 shots, a few districts have offered vaccines to their staff.
Brian Gordon
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With many North Carolina teachers still weeks, if not months, away from receiving COVID-19 vaccines, a few districts have already helped give shots to hundreds of staff members.
Jackson County Public Schools in Western North Carolina dismissed students early Jan. 22 so staff could get vaccinated. Since last week, public school employees in Rutherford County, Swain County and Union County received their first vaccine doses as well. In the Triad, Davie County Schools will make shots available to employees on Wednesday.
Some health departments and hospitals canceled appointments after receiving no additional vaccine doses this week.
Brian Gordon
USA TODAY NETWORK
After exhausting their vaccine supplies and receiving few, if any, new doses from the state, many local health departments and hospitals in North Carolina are struggling this week to administer COVID-19 vaccines.
Some have been forced to cancel scheduled vaccination appointments, a move health officials fear could further erode public confidence in a vaccine rollout already marked by delays and uncertainties.
“It undermines their trust in us locally, and that is probably the biggest loss of all of this,” Onslow County Health Director Kristen Richmond-Hoover said. She estimated her department has canceled or rescheduled around 1,600 appointments after Onslow County received fewer-than-expected doses this week from the state health department.
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A handful of NC school districts have begun vaccinating employees
While most teachers have to wait for their COVID-19 shots, a few districts have offered vaccines to their staff.
Brian Gordon
USA TODAY NETWORK
With many North Carolina teachers still weeks, if not months, away from receiving COVID-19 vaccines, a few districts have already helped give shots to hundreds of staff members.
On Friday, Jackson County Public Schools in Western North Carolina dismissed students early so staff could get vaccinated. Since last week, public school employees in Rutherford County, Swain County, and Union County received their first vaccine doses as well. In the Triad, Davie County Schools will make shots available to employees on Wednesday.
NewsSportsEntertainmentLifestyleOpinionUSA TODAYObituariesE-EditionLegals
A handful of NC school districts have begun vaccinating employees
While most teachers have to wait for their COVID-19 shots, a few districts have offered vaccines to their staff.
Brian Gordon
USA TODAY NETWORK
With many North Carolina teachers still weeks, if not months, away from receiving COVID-19 vaccines, a few districts have already helped give shots to hundreds of staff members.
On Friday, Jackson County Public Schools in Western North Carolina dismissed students early so staff could get vaccinated. Since last week, public school employees in Rutherford County, Swain County, and Union County received their first vaccine doses as well. In the Triad, Davie County Schools will make shots available to employees on Wednesday.