Vaccine rollout continues across Southeastern North Carolina
Latest update on vaccine roll-out across the Cape Fear region By Emily Featherston | December 29, 2020 at 6:11 PM EST - Updated December 29 at 7:26 PM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - As the third week of North Carolina’s distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine continues, hospitals and health departments are making their way through the list of eligible healthcare workers as pharmacy chains begin getting doses into long-term care facilities.
Statewide, more than 63,500 vaccines have gone into the arms of front-line workers a figure provided by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services as of 8 p.m. Dec. 28.
COVID-19 vaccine has arrived at NHRMC, Brunswick Novant
NHRMC receives first COVID-19 vaccine shipment By WECT Staff | December 17, 2020 at 3:52 PM EST - Updated December 17 at 7:25 PM
SOUTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA (WECT) - The first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine arrived at New Hanover Regional Medical Center and Novant Health Brunswick Medical Center on Thursday.
NHRMC’s initial shipment of the vaccine consists of 2,925 doses while Brunswick Novant received 975.
Vaccine also arrived at @NovantHealth Brunswick Medical Center, and they vaccinated the first staff there this afternoon, with the first being Madison Valenza, a Critical Care CNA.
She told me she was honored to be the first, and is excited about what this means.
The COVID-19 vaccine is in the building. We have vaccine in-house, said Dr. West Paul, chief clinical officer at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, during a call with reporters on Thursday. It s in our freezers now.
A shipment of 2,925 doses of the vaccine, made by the Pfizer pharmaceutical company, arrived at the hospital Thursday morning, Paul said. He added that hospital workers could begin receiving vaccinations as soon as today or maybe early tomorrow (Friday) morning.
By tomorrow afternoon, he said, between 50 to 75 hospital employees will have gotten the vaccine, with much higher numbers of employees getting vaccinated each day after that and in the days to follow.
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Rosalind Cornwell, standing, and Stefany Esparza, with Atrium Health’s Teammate Health, demonstrate an antibody testing session.
On Oct.7, the Greensboro-based Cone Health system had 57 COVID-19 patients across their small network of hospitals. A month later that number had almost doubled. A month after that, it was up to a total of 167.
And the numbers keep climbing.
“We’re doing this to ourselves,” Bruce Swords, the system’s chief medical executive, told his colleagues.
According to Doug Allred, the system spokesperson, medical leaders at Cone are frustrated, and they’re worried about having enough staff to handle what appears to be a continuing surge of patients.