{"id":4850,"date":"2021-01-29T19:17:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T23:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/?page_id=4850"},"modified":"2021-01-29T19:17:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T23:17:05","slug":"getting-their-shot-while-they-can","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/getting-their-shot-while-they-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting their shot, while they can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the same week that Durham and Duke University health officials temporarily halted booking new coronavirus vaccinations, people who had appointments did what was needed to get their doses.<\/p>\n<p>Some alone and some with help, they completed health screens and grabbed tickets required to gain entry to three vaccine centers in town.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4858\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4858\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4858 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.duke.edu\/9thstreetjournal\/files\/2021\/01\/KarshVaccine_01-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the foot traffic heading into a vaccination site at Karsh Alumni and Visitors Center at Duke University this week. Photo by Sho Hatakeyama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Others eligible to receive vaccines will have to wait. As 9th Street Journal reporters Rebecca Scheinder and Dryden Quigley <a href=\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2021\/01\/29\/low-supplies-delay-coronavirus-vaccinations\/\">report<\/a>, Durham on Friday hit pause on scheduling new appointments due to a low supply of vaccines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, state Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy Cohen released a <a href=\"https:\/\/files.nc.gov\/covid\/documents\/vaccines\/NCDHHS-Vaccine-Strategy-and-Process.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">letter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> explaining that federal allotment of vaccines to North Carolina dropped from 260,000 to 120,000 this past week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4861\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4861\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4861 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.duke.edu\/9thstreetjournal\/files\/2021\/01\/Southern-HS_05-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A staff member greets a man outside the coronavirus vaccination site at Southern School of Energy and Sustainability. Photo by Sho Hatakeyama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In better news, the<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> North Carolina jumped from the 40th to 22nd place in a federal ranking of <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#vaccinations\">how many<\/a> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">first doses states have moved from cold storage into people&#8217;s arms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>At top, a woman receives a mask needed to enter a vaccination site at Durham County Department of Health on East Main Street. 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