The following has been cut and pasted from email correspondence from Lisa Harrison, director Granville Vance Public Health:
There have been 5,157 cases of COVID-19 in Granville County and 4,258 cases of COVID-19 in Vance County for a total of 9,415 across the health district.
Sadly, there have been 76 deaths as a result of COVID-19 in Granville County and 80 deaths in Vance County.
As our focus shifts to vaccine efforts, we will begin reporting updates about the numbers vaccinated in each of our counties. This information, as well as demographic information, can also be found at https://covid19.ncdhhs.gov/dashboard/vaccinations.
Vance County —
Total Doses Administered: 10,119
First Doses Administered: 6,259
Second Doses Administered: 3,860
Percentage of Population Received 1st Dose: 14%
Percentage of Population Received 2nd Dose: 8.7%
Granville County —
Total Doses Administered: 14,324
First Doses Administered: 9,041
Second Doses Administered: 5,283
Percentage of Population Received 1st Dose: 15%
Percentage of Population Received 2nd Dose: 8.7%
We encourage you to visit the NCDHHS COVID-19 Dashboard. Relevant graphs from these dashboards are available on our website at https://gvph.org/covid-19_dashboard/.
We continue to follow North Carolina’s risk-based priorities with scheduling appointments. In addition to continuing to provide vaccine for those in Groups 1 and 2, we have begun to slowly add on Group 3 with a two-week on-ramp allowed for school and child care employees. For school employees, we are working closely with public and private schools in both counties to schedule their employees for vaccine clinics so teachers and school employees do not have to call the hotline at this time. All other eligible school and child care workers may call the GVPH COVID Vaccine Hotline at 252-295-1503 to schedule an appointment.
We held our biggest mass vaccination clinic to date yesterday at Ritchie Bros Auction facility in Butner/Creedmoor. We were able to vaccinate over 1,200 individuals including many of our school and child care employees. We are grateful for the hard work of our GVPH team and the support of the Granville County School Nurses, Vance County School Nurses, NC National Guard, Granville County Sheriff’s Dept, Granville County Emergency Management and many other partners in protecting our residents 1 shot at a time!
Over the past two weeks, we have also been administering a lot of second doses, including large clinics at the Granville County Expo Center and the follow-up event with Vance County Schools and Maria Parham Hospital for the event we had in January. GVPH is scheduling second dose appointments when we administer the first vaccine. A reminder about second doses, both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines may be scheduled up to 6 weeks (42 days) after the first dose. If you do not get your second dose within 6 weeks, you do not need to start again at the first dose. If you do not get your second dose at the recommended time, you should still get it. The vaccine can be given up to four days early and still work. See more information about vaccine products at the CDC website.
We will continue to add other members of Group 3, Frontline Essential Workers, on March 10th. We are already working together with local child care centers, schools, church partners, court systems, businesses, and large industrial groups to ensure we can plan well. Keep in mind, we only have appointments available one week at a time since the delivery of vaccines varies somewhat. We (usually) get new doses in each week, and, related to that number of doses we receive, open up more appointments each week.
Again, the message to remember is that we will get rid of every vaccine dose we have in our possession each week on the groups we are allowed to vaccinate at this time in an equitable fashion, and we will work hard to register, reach out, and communicate the timing of each group’s turn as soon as we are able. We are making good progress. Always check our web site for the latest updates https://gvph.org/covidvaccines/.
