WTVD-11 reports UNC Health began administering COVID-19 vaccines to people 75 years of age and older under Phase 1B on Monday and that more health care providers in North Carolina are opening up vaccinations to those who qualify under Phase 1B.
Already, existing appointments at UNC Health are booked, but David Wohl, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, said more appointments will be added as more vaccines come in.
“The problem is not so much our capacity to vaccinate,” Wohl told WTVD-11 News. “We have great capacity to vaccinate. The problem is we’re outstripping the supply of the vaccine. So right now, the limiting factor, the reason that we have closed down to any new bookings right this moment is because we don’t have adequate assurance that we will have vaccine available. And we don’t want people showing up and telling them, ‘Sorry we didn’t get any allotment of vaccine.'”
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