A light at the end of the tunnel: First COVID-19 vaccines administered in Western North Carolina Derek Lacey, Asheville Citizen Times
Cheers for first COVID-19 vaccine recipient in WNC
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HENDERSONVILLE Jamie Kilpatrick is a registered nurse who works with COVID-19 patients every shift in the ICU. Her father is at high risk after a recent heart attack and she hasn’t set foot in her parents’ house in more than a year.
Tuesday, she was the second person in line to get Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in Western North Carolina, hoping to give people confidence in the vaccine and help turn the corner on the pandemic that’s spreading at the highest rates ever in Western North Carolina.