Gov. Cooper Visits Duke Health
Cooper thanks frontline medical workers as they receive their vaccinations

Governor Roy Cooper looks on as a COVID-19 vaccine is administered to a Duke Health employee at the Duke University School of Medicine
On Monday, Governor Roy Cooper visited the Duke University School of Medicine to tour the COVID-19 vaccination area. He was greeted at the door by Faye Williams, a retired VA nurse and now visitor screener at Duke, who was the first person in the Triangle to receive a COVID-19 vaccination.
Cooper greeted and thanked many Duke Health employees as he made his way through the School of Medicine to the vaccination area.
Cooper along with Dr. Mandy Cohen, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, looked in on the room where Duke Health employees are preparing doses of the vaccination.
He then visited the distribution site where he stopped to greet and thank the frontline health workers at Duke as they were about to receive their vaccinations.
Governor Cooper spoke with a number of employees about the Coronavirus pandemic and the COVID-19 vaccine in North Carolina.