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Ohio nursing homes to begin federal COVID vaccination program Gov. Mike DeWine Ohio is one of the first states in the nation that will receive doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to be used statewide for nursing home staff and residents, Gov. Mike DeWine said. "Ohio was invited by the CDC to participate in the scaling up of the federal program and we could not be more excited," the governor said at his Thursday, Dec. 17, coronavirus update. Four pharmaceutical companies — CVS, Walgreens, PharmScri...

Pfizer vaccine vials contain excess doses, surprising hospitals and pharmacists By Stephen Gandel Extra doses found in Pfizer vaccine vials Pfizers COVID-19 vaccine appears to be in slightly less short supply than originally thought. Hospitals around the U.S. this week got their first vials of the vaccine, which was jointly developed by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and Germanys BioNTech and is the first to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Many hospitals h...

DeWine says Ohio has a moral obligation to get the vaccine out as nursing home vaccinations begin WCPO file and last updated 2020-12-17 15:57:32-05 Some nursing home residents and workers in Ohio will receive their first COVID-19 vaccinations Friday, making Ohio among the first states in the country to expand its vaccination program outside of hospitals. “We’ve lost a large number of people in our nursing homes,” Gov. Mike DeWine said in a Thursday afternoon news conference. â€...