COVID-19 vaccinations start in North Carolina prisons

By Washington Examiner

Published January 22, 2021 8:00pm ET

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COVID-19 vaccinations start in North Carolina prisons — A lab technician working a bottle containing for COVID-19 vaccine testing at Chula Vaccine Research Center, run by Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, May 25, 2020. Thai health officials said that scientists in Thailand have had promising results in testing a COVID-19 vaccine candidate on mice, and have begun testing on monkeys. | (Sakchai Lalit/AP)

About 1,000 of the 1,300 COVID-19 vaccine doses set aside for North Carolina’s prisons were sent to the facilities this week.

Four prisons are regional hubs for the first portion of vaccine deliveries from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. The North Carolina National Guard and prison health care workers started administering the Moderna vaccines Wednesday. More doses are expected each week.

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