{"id":53266,"date":"2021-07-02T09:09:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T13:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=53266"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:12:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:12:11","slug":"gap-grows-between-best-worst-nc-counties-in-vaccine-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/gap-grows-between-best-worst-nc-counties-in-vaccine-rollout\/","title":{"rendered":"Gap Grows Between Best, Worst NC Counties in Vaccine Rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50063\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 300px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50063\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/03\/david-wohl.jpeg\" alt=\"david-wohl\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/03\/david-wohl.jpeg 290w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/03\/david-wohl-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">David Wohl, MD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The gap continues to widen between North Carolina\u2019s counties performing relatively well during the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and those that aren\u2019t, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs17.com\/community\/health\/coronavirus\/no-one-is-hitting-this-out-of-the-park-gap-grows-between-best-worst-nc-counties-in-vaccine-rollout\/\">CBS17.com<\/a> data analysis found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s too much of a surprise, given the size of our state and its geography and other influences, that different counties are doing things differently,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/david-wohl-md\/\">David Wohl<\/a>, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, told CBS17.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom east to west, north to south, we\u2019re a pretty diverse state, and we\u2019re not homogeneous. And we do know that there are counties where there\u2019s just been a lot slower uptake of the vaccine. And some of those have been on the border with South Carolina, which would share some of the characteristics of those south of the border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs17.com\/community\/health\/coronavirus\/no-one-is-hitting-this-out-of-the-park-gap-grows-between-best-worst-nc-counties-in-vaccine-rollout\/\">Watch or read the report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gap continues to widen between North Carolina\u2019s counties performing relatively well during the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and those that aren\u2019t, a CBS17.com data analysis found. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s too much of a surprise, given the size of our state and its geography and other influences, that different counties are doing things differently,\u201d David &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/gap-grows-between-best-worst-nc-counties-in-vaccine-rollout\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Gap Grows Between Best, Worst NC Counties in Vaccine Rollout\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69419,"featured_media":50063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[100,2],"tags":[630],"class_list":["post-53266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infectious-diseases","category-news","tag-630","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gap Grows Between Best, Worst NC Counties in Vaccine Rollout | Department of Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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