2020 in review: A year into a pandemic
2020 in review: A year into a pandemic By Katie Tercek | December 31, 2020 at 8:38 PM CST - Updated December 31 at 10:33 PM
TRI-STATE (WFIE) - 2020 was a year of the unimaginable as the coronavirus pandemic played a major part in each of our everyday lives.
From mask mandates to people postponing or canceling milestone moments, 2020 has been full of heartache, and eventually some hope.
Earlier this year, shelves stocked with disinfectants went empty as Tri-State residents prepared for the longest year of their life.
Finally, the first local coronavirus case was confirmed.
“We all knew that it was just a matter of time,” Daviess County Judge-Executive Al Mattingly said on March 19 in response to those reported cases.
History was made early Wednesday afternoon as 10 Baptist Health Madisonville employees were administered the first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
Employees in the Joseph Miller Auditorium at the hospital erupted into applause as Duana Camplin, a respiratory therapist with Baptist, was the first to receive the vaccine.
âToday, we are humbled, honored and we are excited to be one of 11 hospitals in the state of Kentucky â the first in western Kentucky â to receive the vaccination to fight COVID-19,â said Dr. Wayne Lipson, chief medical officer of Baptist Health Madisonville. âWe are here to start with our frontline workers, doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists that have been fighting this fight since late February and early March.â