Of the many wonderful tasks that Granville Vance District Health Director Lisa Harrison has worked towards in recent months, one of them has been solid communication.
For example, an email January 19th from Harrison that contained bullet points that tell a story about what is going on right now.
- There are 15 super-dedicated nurses working for Granville Vance Public Health across the district in both COVID-19 Communicable Disease Response and Vaccine Distribution Efforts.
- (January 19th) alone, there were more than 13,000 calls to the vaccine hotline at Granville Vance Public Health.
- We receive approximately 700 doses of (first dose) vaccine a week across the district – we only know the number of vaccines that will be shipped for the following week a few days in advance and we restrict our appointments to meet our vaccine allocation.
- More than 2,500 vaccines have been given by our staff so far in the first four weeks.
- Of the 100,000 population we serve in these two counties, there are a total of 17,265 people who are 65 years old and older across our health district – 7,746 in Vance and 9,519 in Granville.
- We have 2 hospital partners across the district and are impressed by the work of Granville Health Systems and Maria Parham Health as we work together to serve our communities and get this important work accomplished – many thanks to their efforts and people too
Also, we quote Harrison as she wrote, “Second dose appointments will be added beginning this week so we will be doubling up our distribution capacity to keep going with first doses, and add in second doses of vaccine for people too – that’s the main reason for a slower start the first few weeks… we have to leave room in the schedule to add those second doses in and… here they come.”
