With new cases of COVID-19 surging across North Carolina, the NC Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS) is urgently asking medical professionals to encourage patients who are not yet vaccinated against COVID-19 to get inoculated. NC DHHS has completed a statewide analysis of vaccination rates and population density to identify those counties most at risk of a COVID-19 outbreak.

NCMB recently reached out to licensees in the top 20 counties to help the state get its message out.

Read the provider message from State Health Director and Chief Medical Officer Elizabeth C. Tilson, MD.