The total county vaccinations are higher than those shown by state data, a spokesman said.

New Hanover County — Due to delays in recording Covid-19 vaccination in New Hanover County, the actual total vaccination county is higher than currently reflected. NC Vaccine Dashboard..

By this week, 33,925 initial doses and hundreds of MedNorth doses had been shipped to New Hanover County vaccine providers, including hospital and community health departments, according to a total of vaccine allocations obtained by Port City Daily. .. At the same time, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services dashboard showed that only 22,399 initial doses were given on Monday.

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Health officials in New Hanover County have previously stated that the county has succeeded in deploying virtually all doses in a timely manner. A county spokesperson wrote in an email: “It is our understanding that the state dashboard is a bit behind the current status of vaccination.”

Still, the state is familiar with the situation. A county spokesperson said New Hanover Public Health is in constant contact with state authorities: “They are aware of delays in data entry from their medical partners. [the Coronavirus Vaccine Management System].. “

CVMS, as it is called, is the state’s choice platform for centrally recording vaccinations in North Carolina. All healthcare providers, including health departments and hospitals, as well as other clinics that were later added to the vaccine effort should take advantage of this system.

The· NC Watchdog Reporting Network reported Many vaccination providers are dissatisfied with the system, which requires 21 fields of data entry and can take up to 8 hours to upload 115 patients, according to a Kabalas County Health Department spokesman quoted in the report. Has stated.

“Medical institutions need to manually enter each person into the state system, and some institutions take longer than others to complete the process,” a New Hanover County spokesperson wrote in an email. I am. “The county has endeavored to bring vaccination into the system as soon as possible in the evenings and weekends, but understands that this has caused some difficulties for some partners to enter the vaccine in real time. . “

Also, according to a NC Watchdog report, it can take about eight and a half minutes to enter information for a single patient into the system.

Earlier this week, New Hanover County received 19,100 initial doses from the state. Thousands of initial doses were sent individually and directly from the state to the New Hanover Community Health Center. Of that inventory, New Hanover County transferred 8,290 initial doses to its vaccination partners Wilmington Health, Mednorth, and Cape Fear Clinics, and then to hospitals.

Nearly 4,000 more first-dose shots arrived in New Hanover County this week. 2,650 went directly to the hospital. 1,000 for public health; 300 at Med North Clinic, a federal-qualified health center.

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After the state vowed to pay more attention to the county on weekly allocations, New Hanover County went 300 times a week to start, despite the ability of public health to provide thousands of shots a week. Tagged with assignment. This week, 700 additional vaccines were provided by the state in the form of additional doses.

NHRMC and New Hanover Public Health have been intermittently opening the door to the general public in recent weeks to schedule vaccination appointments. New Hanover County has divided this week as follows: 500 doses will help book, 450 will fuel the outreach event, and 50 will be transferred to the Cape Fear Clinic. This week, the county schedules half of the appointments over the phone and the other half via the new online portal option.

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