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In Wake County, the health department was given a list of 214 Home invasion suspect Xres gunshot, locations, according to Ryan Jury, the Mass Vaccine Branch 6 Yees after he’s yelled at by Fayetteville homeowner Director for the Wake County Health Department.

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Long term care facilities are not just senior living communities.

NCDHHS says adult care homes, assisted living, group homes, mental health group homes, continuing care retirements communities, and in-patient hospice facilities all fall into priority group one for vaccination.

The Orange County Health Department is administering doses to nine places that serve adults with mental disabilities, substance abuse facilities and a halfway house.

In Halifax County, the health department will vaccinate people in eight group homes.

The Chatham County Health Department gave 135 ﬁrst doses to

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staff members and residents at two independent living facilities Ad and one congregate setting.

While some counties will have people come to the health department for thier shot, others such as Wake County are sending teams to these facilities.

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Moore, Wilson, Hoke, and Harnett health departments say doses for all of the long-term care facilities in their counties were Ad administered through the federal program.

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UNC has identiﬁed a cluster of COVID-19 cases at Avery Residence Hall on campus.

This is the second COVID-19 cluster identiﬁed at UNC

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in 2021 and the ﬁrst since the spring semester began on January 19. Earlier this month, a cluster was identiﬁed at Carmichael Residence Hall between students who lived on campus during winter break.

A “cluster” is defined by health officials as a five or more cases that are deemed close proximity in location. “Location” is defined as a single residential hall or dwelling with plausible epidemiological link between cases.

UNC’s COVID-19 dashboard shows ﬁve cases within Avery Residence Hall.

During the fall semester, Avery Residence Hall was among the numerous residence halls on UNC’s campus to report a coronavirus cluster.

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Under UNC’s new testing program, asymptomatic students living in Chapel Hill or Carrboro are required to get tested once per week at one of three UNC testing locations. Students living on campus or taking in person courses will need to be tested twice per week.

Currently UNC has roughly 3,200 students living on campus as the university continues its remote

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learning until February 8. As of Friday January 29, UNC is reporting 455 cumulative COVID-19 cases since the university began testing earlier this month — 361 students and 94 staﬀ members.

Overall, the university has processed more than 25,000 COVID-19 tests and is currently reporting an asymptomatic positivity rate of 0.6 percent.

At a media brieﬁng following the Board of Trustees meeting on Thursday, UNC Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz addressed the concerns surrounding videos on social media that showed students hosting large, non-socially distanced gatherings.

“These are not just university standards,” Guskiewicz said. “As you well know, these are statewide mandates regarding gathering. I’ve been very pleased with what’s happening on campus – we’ve not had any transmission in any of our on-campus facilities, but we have to remain vigilant as we work through the rest of the semester.”

According to the university, the individuals in this cluster have been identiﬁed and are isolating and receiving medical monitoring. UNC has also notiﬁed the Orange County Health Department and is working with them to identify additional potential exposures.

This story will be updated with additional information.

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While Orange County’s vaccine rollout continues this week with a new allotment of COVID-19 vaccine, smaller counties in the state continue to face uncertainty regarding how much vaccine supply they will receive.

In January, the Orange County Health Department did not receive any ﬁrst dose allotments of COVID-19 vaccine from the state for three weeks in a row. During the week of February 2, the health department saw a slight improvement, receiving 600 ﬁrst dose allotments.

Despite receiving this new vaccine supply, there have been continuing concerns among North Carolina county health department directors, and those set to receive shots, about inconsistent shipments of doses. Some of the confusion is over which level of government has the ability to allocate vaccines to each county.

Orange County Health Director Quintana Stewart recently spoke with 97.9 The Hill. She said vaccine dose allocations start at the federal level.

“It was not just Orange County that went multiple weeks with no allocation but several counties, local health departments and hospitals received very little or no allocation for multiple weeks,” Stewart said.

She said many of the vaccines allocations were diverted to some of the “mega-mass” vaccination centers across the state. The lack of first dose allotment to other providers, however, does not affect or delay second vaccines for community members who have received their first shot.

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To address the shortage locally, Stewart said Dr. Mandy Cohen of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services reached out about inconsistent shipment schedules.

“They were very transparent and they reached out to all the counties to explain what happened and why it happened that way,” Stewart said.

North Carolina now gives each county a base allocation of vaccine doses based on population. Allocation is spread through all vaccine providers in the county – not just the local health department.

“So for us at the Health Department, our base allocation now is 200 ﬁrst doses each week for at least the next three weeks,” Stewart said.

Currently, the Orange County Health Department said it might take weeks or even months to schedule an appointment for the vaccine – but the 600 new doses will help.

UNC Health – one of the largest vaccine providers in North Carolina – will receive more than 13,000 ﬁrst doses this week of the Pﬁzer and Moderna vaccine. About 6,000 of those doses will be administered at the vaccination clinics in Orange County at the UNC Medical Center, Hillsborough campus and the Friday Center. Additionally, UNC Health says the Friday Center vaccine clinic is slated to administer more than 4,600 second doses this week.

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As cars lined up in the Cedar Ridge High School parking lot, Orange County EMT John Herrera and other staff were waiting with syringes to administer the COVID-19 vaccine.

As an emergency medical technician and volunteer firefighter with the Eno Fire Department, Herrera said he usually fills a supporting role at medical emergencies, keeping patients stable until an ambulance can get there.

As a volunteer in the Orange County Health Department’s COVID-19 vaccination effort, it’s a more “intense” experience, he said.

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People seeking vaccinations can wait in line for an hour or more — and no one likes to wait, he said — while volunteers and staff make sure each one gets the necessary information, understands the potential risks of vaccination and gives legal consent.

It helps to stay positive and also inject a little humor into the situation, said Herrera, a former Carrboro alderman.

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“I feel like we are fighting a war, and this is one way to win it,” he said. “This pandemic is just devastating. I have friends who have died, because they never got the vaccine on time.”

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It can take 100 people, including volunteers managing traffic and paperwork, to vaccinate roughly 160 people per hour at Orange County’s COVID-19 drive-thru clinic, community paramedic Katie Benedyk said.

By redefining the job description of an emergency medical technician, the Health Department and Orange County Emergency Services vastly expanded the number of people who could help roll out the vaccines, officials said.

EMTs only need 200 hours of training to do their job, compared with 1,000 hours for paramedics, but their duties are more limited. The state, for instance, only lets EMTs give shots when patients are experiencing an allergic reaction or an overdose. A paramedic, on the other hand, can administer a range of vaccines and medicines as part of the job.

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But there’s a “tremendous” shortage of paramedics nationwide, said Joseph Grover, Orange County Emergency Services medical director. That’s largely due to their increasing education requirements and lagging salaries, he said, noting that with a little more training, paramedics can become nurses, at least doubling their pay.

In September, he submitted a plan to the state EMS office to use EMTs recruited from Emergency Services, the South Orange Rescue Squad and rural fire departments. In October, the county let EMTs administer the flu vaccine to the public as a practice run.

They were ready when the State Medical Board agreed to a temporary program, Grover said.

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By December, EMTs made up roughly 36% of the staff preparing vaccines for distribution and monitoring patients at Orange County’s drive-thru clinic. EMTs also made up 45% of the vaccination staff; paramedics, 16% of that group.

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Last week, Gov. Roy Cooper issued an executive order letting counties also recruit licensed dentists, retired and out-of-state licensed health care workers and advanced medical students, in addition to skilled but unlicensed volunteers, to administer the vaccine.

Not using EMTs is “shooting ourselves in the foot,” Grover said.

“From my perspective, it seems almost counterintuitive that, on the one hand, you’re telling me that we train our EMS providers how to give an intramuscular injection for the sickest of the sick patients, but we can’t train them to administer a medication for the patient who’s requesting a vaccine and is well,” he said.

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North Carolina each week for its 10 million residents, up from 120,000 doses a week, said Dr. Mandy Cohen, secretary of the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services.

It’s still not enough to meet the demand, Cohen said, but there is hope for a third, one-dose vaccine from Johnson & Johnson, which could arrive by the time public school teachers become eligible on Feb. 24.

The vaccine is available now for people in Groups 1 and 2, covering health care workers, long-term care staff and residents, and people 65 and older. So far, however, the statewide effort to provide equitable, efficient access to the vaccine has been a work in progress.

There have been stumbles, from a software-related bottleneck in getting vaccines to health departments and hospitals to the limited vaccine supply going to states and a cumbersome data collection process. Some residents also remain reluctant to trust the vaccine.

DHHS reported Thursday that more than 22,204 people in Orange County had their first dose of the vaccine, out of 1 million people statewide. Orange County also had administered 10,300 second doses.

Nearly 81% of those receiving their first dose in Orange County were white. Only 8% were Black, 6% Asian and about 3% Hispanic. The county reported receiving 600 first doses last week and having 17,675 people on a waiting list.

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The low vaccination rates for people of color has been a statewide problem, officials said, but there has been some progress.

Two weeks ago, roughly 18% of the state’s available vaccine went to Black residents, up 65% from Jan. 13, when only 11% of the vaccines were going to Black residents. Roughly 22% of the state’s population is Black.

Hispanic residents, who constitute about 9% of the state’s population, received only 2% of the available vaccine doses.

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Herrera, a native of Costa Rica, said he remains very concerned about North Carolina’s Hispanic and Latino immigrants, many of whom fill essential jobs. When they share with him their fears about the vaccine, he said, it’s important that he can explain in Spanish how it works.

“I think it’s crucial that the Health Department, that the policy makers understand it does make a difference in a pandemic to have bilingual, bi-cultural health providers who can explain to folks in their own language, people who look like them, because that helps build trust and understanding,” he said.

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The chancellor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has clari6ed his role — and what he told university faculty — concerning the $2.5 million settlement involving the Silent Sam statue.

Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz responded to questions about his involvement in a campus-wide message Thursday evening. He said the UNC System Board of Governors asked Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs Clayton Somers to work with them to 6nd a resolution for the Silent Sam monument after the BOG rejected the university's proposal for the statue.

Guskiewicz said that in his role as interim chancellor, he received "general, broad updates" from Somers, but "understood and accepted the UNC System and BOG’s authority to decide what to do with the monument and to negotiate, approve and implement the terms of the settlement."

The written statement from Guskiewicz came out the same day that a group of professors at UNC Chapel Hill called for him to step down for committing "serial breaches of trust" with faculty and the campus community.

Members of the Chapel Hill chapter of the American Association of University Professors sent a letter to the chancellor’s oTce Thursday urging his resignation. The letter outlines incidents over the past two years they say demonstrate a "pattern of institutional dishonesty."

Reporting by The Daily Tar Heel student newspaper revealed last week that Somers was involved in legal negotiations between UNC System counsel and the attorney for the Sons of Confederate Veterans. That settlement was later thrown out by the judge who approved it.

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In December 2019, when asked by the faculty council whether any UNC Chapel Hill leaders had approved of the settlement or been involved in legal negotiations with the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Guskiewicz told faculty "we were not consulted" and asserted that the UNC Board of Governors was responsible for the settlement.

Somers is a member of the chancellor's cabinet and the former chief of staff of North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore.

Guskiewicz had been serving as the interim chancellor at the time of the settlement, and the UNC System Board of Governors elected him to take on the role permanently the following week.

"The fact that the chancellor either didn't know about this decision, or knew about it, and lied to the faculty, is grounds for his removal," said AAUP Chapter President Michael Palm.

Palm said the association took a vote before sending the letter Thursday, and an "overwhelming majority" of the 73 dues-paying Chapel Hill members were in favor, citing Somers' involvement in the Silent Sam negotiations.

"But it's even more important to stress that this is not an isolated incident, that this is the latest in a long series of breaches of trust," Palm said.

The letter also points to the university's failure to release a memo from the Orange County Health Department recommending a remote start to the Fall 2020 semester, in addition to failing to release an un^attering federal report in 2019 detailing the university's treatment of students who reported sexual assaults. In both cases, the university released the documents following reporting by local media outlets.

"We're trying to capture the will of the faculty which has lost any faith or con6dence in the leadership at UNC Chapel Hill," Palm said.

Before Chancellor Guskiewicz sent his campus-wide message, the chair of the UNC

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Chapel Hill Faculty Council Mimi Chapman said she did not support the AAUP’s call for Guskiewicz's resignation.

"Calling for the resignation of a chancellor is a very in^ammatory thing to do, even if it Donate wouldn't have any particular in^uence," Chapman said.

Only the UNC System Board of Governors or the UNC system president has the power to remove a chancellor of a UNC system institution.

Chapman said she would like to hear Guskiewicz address the Silent Sam negotiations and what he knew at the time he told faculty the campus was not involved.

"It would make sense to hear from the chancellor about the situation, about how things unfolded and transpired [and] about the extent of what he knew about Mr. Somers' role in negotiating a settlement," Chapman said.

The AAUP letter quotes Chapman saying last fall that the university’s failure to disclose the health department’s reopening recommendations represented a "serious breach of trust."

Chapman said the university’s administration, faculty and staff have worked hard to rebuild trust by collaborating more closely on pandemic safety protocols for the spring semester.

As faculty chair, Chapman reached out to Chancellor Guskiewicz prior to his campus- wide message to say faculty are concerned about the statements he made in December 2019 regarding the settlement.

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FEATURED State revises vaccine program, expands eligibility

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A vaccinator administers the COVID-19 vaccine to a patient. Courtesy of the Orange County Health Department

North Carolinians who are 65 years of age or older are now eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. North Carolina moved into phase two of the COVID vaccine distribution as of Jan. 14. The North Carolina Health and Human Services announced the revised version of the vaccination rollout program, outlining the newly de!ned !ve-phased approach. Along with lowering the age of eligibility from 75 to 65 for phase two population, the need for qualifying chronic conditions has been withdrawn. A timeline of phases three through !ve has yet to be released.

Local immunization sites continue to vaccinate the phase one population while shouldering the growing demand from phase two individuals. “For people who are 65 plus, it feels very urgent to get this vaccine, and I know that they’ve been su"ering in this pandemic for all these months,” said Kristin Prelipp, communications manager and public information o#ce for the Orange County Health Department. “I hope that we can get everybody signed up who wants a vaccine.”

A simpli!ed three-step registration process is o"ered through the OCHD’s website, allowing eligible individuals to schedule their vaccination. Additional assistance for those who do not have access to the Internet or may need help completing the necessary documents is also available. Unlike other vaccination sites, the OCHD operates mobile vaccine sites called Points of Dispensing (POD). POD locations change weekly, traveling throughout Orange County to ensure access to all.

“These vaccine sites are really run by volunteers,” said Prelipp. “People are showing up and giving their time and their support, and that’s been really wonderful.”

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Variable allotment a"orded to vaccine sites leads to uncertain availability. In a press release from the OCHD, Orange County Health Director Quintana Steward asks for the public’s patience and expresses the understanding of frustration regarding the limited availability of vaccines. Prelipp adds, “We’re all working really hard and I appreciate the support from the community.” Orange County residents may also register to receive the vaccine through Duke Hospital and the UNC Medical Center.

Prelipp encourages those who are not yet eligible to register for the vaccine to read the information provided and make an informed decision for themselves. The OCHD invites the public to share their questions and concerns, o"ering detailed information about Operation Warp Speed and the vaccine’s testing, safety and e#cacy. “We’ve heard a lot of di"erent rumors [and] misinformation about the vaccine,” explained Prelipp. “We are hoping to let people know what the actual real !ght is behind this wonderful vaccine and that it really is the best tool in their toolkit and the pandemic.”

While the COVID vaccine serves as hope for ending the pandemic, the OCHD continues to urge people to practice the three Ws and take advantage of free testing locations.

“We still have to wear a mask, wait six feet apart, wash our hands, and mostly just spend time with our household members,” said Prelipp. “There’s a lot that we know about the vaccine. What we don’t know is if I could be like a Typhoid Mary; carrying COVID [and] unwittingly spreading it to the people that I love.” The OCHD o"ers free COVID testing Monday through Friday at their Hillsborough location (300 W. Tryon St.). Although walk-ins are accepted, residents are encouraged to make an appointment online.

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Data from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services shows that Wake County, one of the largest counties in the state, received some of the fewest doses per capita.

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- While North Carolina officials aim to distribute their limited COVID-19 doses equitably between counties, the ABC11 I-Team uncovered various disparities in the data.

Data from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services shows that Wake County, one of the largest counties in the state, received some of the fewest doses per capita.

MORE VIDEOS The county has received 7.5 doses per every 100 residents, an average that places the county three doses below the state's average (10.6).

"It's difficult and disappointing to look at those numbers, especially when we know the demand in Wake County is so high," said Stacy Beard, a spokesperson for Wake County.

The Wake County Health Department has approximately 80,000 people on its waitlist.

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12-year-old vaccine trial participant Other counties that report a similar allotment average to Wake County have around 16 times fewer shares his experience residents.

North Carolina has received around 10.6 does per every 100 residents. However, the allocation of COVID-19 vaccine doses across the state significantly varies, leaving some of the larger counties behind.

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Nicki Minaj's father killed by hit-and-run "With a population with of over 1.1 million, it paints a different picture of are we really getting enough driver, police say vaccinations out to enough percentage of our population," Beard said. "We've definitely been Second child on the way for Prince Harry following the numbers and talking with the state about wanting to get the number of doses per capita and Meghan up in Wake County." 3 injured in shooting at South Carolina mall; suspect sought

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MORE TOP STORIES NEWS Secretary Mandy Cohen explained earlier this week that the state allocates its supply based mostly on county population.

"The baseline is strictly distributed based on county population that ensures that all 100 counties are getting vaccine proportionate to the folks who are in their county," Cohen said during a news conference Wednesday. "So, yes, our rural communities that do serve less folks do get less but we are using population to again make sure that we are getting to everywhere."

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However, the ABC11 I-Team uncovered 75% of the state's least populated counties are at or above the state average for vaccine per capita. The data shows Hyde County with fewer than 5,000 residents received three times more vaccine doses per capita than Wake County.

On the other hand, only 30% of the largest counties in the state met or exceeded the state average for vaccine per capita.

ORANGE COUNTY A DIFFERENT STORY

Durham and Orange counties both rank among the top 10 counties in the state for the number of doses per capita.

The latest data shows Orange County received 21 doses per every 100 residents, a rate three times higher than Wake County.

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Orange County spokesperson Todd McGee said he was surprised to learn how high the county ranks.

"Whatever we get in from the state, we are getting out within a week, so it's not an issue of capacity. We can do a lot more vaccines that we are getting from the state, it's just an issue of the state does not have enough to go around," McGee said.

Despite the high ranking, the Orange County Health Department has close to 18,000 people on the wait list and receives only around 600 doses a week.

A majority of the 31,000 doses the county received has gone to UNC, which McGee explained does serve other counties.

So, people from Chatham County and Alamance County and Moore County, and Randolph County WATCH LIVE menu and Person County and other counties are also coming into UNC Health to get treated on a normal basis so they're probably looking at it as a regional type of entity and they're putting out a lot of vaccine," McGee said.

SHARE CHANGES IN ALLOTMENT STRATEGY NEEDED?

TWEET NCDHHS said that about 25% of its vaccine allotments is distributed to counties with higher numbers EMAIL of low-income adults 65 and older and historically marginalized populations 65 and older.

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"NCDHHS' goal is to vaccinate as many people as quickly and equitably as possible while supply of vaccine remains very limited. It is the Department's expectation that all doses be distributed based on our state's equity principles," an NCDHHS spokesperson wrote in an email.

With only 11% of its population 65 years and older, Wake County has one of the smallest percent of the state seniors.

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"We do have a young population in Wake County. It's a place where people are coming to start careers so that may skew some of our population statistics," Beard said.

Beard said NCDHHS is beginning to recognize the need to consider allotments per capita. Next week Wake County is expected to receive 20,000 doses marking the third week the county will receive the highest number of vaccine.

"Priority one is vaccinating this community and we're all doing it night and day and weekends and trying to get it to people as quick as we can," Beard said.

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