North Carolina Health News recently reported on UNC Health vaccination efforts and methods of distribution, recognizing how some local health officials say vaccine administration would have started faster if there had been more certainty and funding for their efforts.
David Wohl, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, explained that while UNC Health knew for a long time the vaccines were coming, a lot was unclear until they were finally approved.
“It got released on us like a ton of water. And we just had to stand up systems really quickly,” he told North Carolina Health News.
He also said he believed North Carolina has been penalized because the state followed federal rules and guidelines about getting the vaccines out, whereas other states did their own thing.
“We’ve been following the phased approach. We haven’t taken just anyone who comes along and vaccinated them like they do in other states,” he said. “We’re following the rules by registering people in the system that the federal government and the state is now complying with that as an extra step.”
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