NC Patch Survey: Will You Take The Coronavirus Vaccine?

NORTH CAROLINA — With about 85,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine expected to arrive in North Carolina by mid December, Patch wants to know: would you take it?

Governor Roy Cooper on Tuesday outlined how state public health officials plan to roll out the vaccine.

The state is expected to receive doses of the Pfizer vaccine, as well as another one by Moderna, upon approval. Frontline health care workers and elderly people in long-term facilities will be the first to receive it, the governor said.

The Pfizer vaccine was approved by the U.K. Wednesday, making it the first western country to start using it.

Thursday, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy Cohen addressed concern about the speed that the vaccine was rolled out and its safety. Questions have also been raised about the role of politics in its development, with the vaccine becoming a hot topic during the presidential campaigns.

But experts predict that it could bring about up to 80 percent immunity to the virus by next summer.

What do you think? Take part in Patch's survey: