The Durham County Public Health Department announced on Thursday that it will temporarily close its vaccination schedule due to the limited supply of COVID-19 vaccine, which will take effect immediately.
Also, the public health department will not add new vaccination data to its online booking site until a later date to be determined.
At this time, no currently scheduled vaccine meetings will be canceled or postponed, although some meetings starting Monday, February 1 will be moved from the Durham Health Department location to the Southern High School location. People whose appointments need to be moved to Southern High School will be contacted by phone or email.
“We are very grateful that we do not have to cancel any permanent appointments, but as Secretary Cohen explained at the press conference earlier this week, the unfortunate reality is that demand far exceeds supply,” said Health Director Rod Jenkins. . “Durham County has a base allocation of 600 first doses for the next three weeks and we’re not sure when our allocation will increase. It’s best to stop scheduling until we’re sure we can make additional appointments.”
Although the public health department expects to be able to honor already scheduled appointments, the public is encouraged to stay up to date with the exact sources of information and communications from our team, as the supply of vaccines may change.
“We hope that by the end of February we will be able to reopen the programming process and see an increased supply, but this is uncertain at this time. We will continue to provide more information as it is received,” Jenkins said.
Vaccine Phases 1 and 2 can still register for the COVID-19 vaccine waiting list at tinyurl.com/DCoVaccineWaitlist in English or tinyurl.com/DCoListaVacunas in Spanish to receive a call if vaccine doses become available from due to the cancellation of the program or shows.