COVID Vaccine

The April 30 Ready and Resilient update has several important updates related to COVID-19

The Charlotte journalist is making extensive efforts to ensure vaccination appointments don’t go unfilled and doses don’t go unused.

All students, faculty, staff and community members are eligible for the on-campus vaccination clinic, which runs April 6-12. See this video message from the Ready & Resilient committee.

The university has received approximately 1,800 doses of the Johnson & Johnson single-dose COVID-19 vaccine. This vaccine event will be open to eligible individuals 18 or older regardless of affiliation to Elon University.

N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper announced Thursday that college students living in dormitories or apartment complexes will become eligible to receive the vaccine on March 31, and all residents who are at least 16 years old will be eligible on April 7.

A new research study by Elon’s School of Health Sciences aims to determine how long COVID-19 antibodies last after vaccination.

Adamik is part of Moderna's DNA manufacturing department, which develops DNA used in the biotechnology company's mRNA vaccines. That DNA helped speed the breakthrough mRNA-1273 COVID vaccine now in wide distribution across America.

About 200 doses were available to those who have difficulty accessing public distribution sites.

This update from the Ready & Resilient Committee offers details on the goal for at least 80 percent of the Elon campus community to be vaccinated by the end of April.

Assistant Professor of Biology Jessica Merricks offers insight into why there is some hesitancy about the COVID-19 vaccine, and steps that the scientific and medical community can take to help overcome those challenges.