Dec 16, 2020 / 07:46 PM EST
Video with this story is from Wednesday’s coronavirus briefing from Gov. Eric Holcomb.
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) The Indiana State Department of Health has issued new COVID-19 information for our state.
ISDH says 6,283 more Hoosiers have tested positive with COVID-19. Those tests were conducted between Nov. 11 and Dec. 15. Of those, 6,273 were conducted on Tuesday.
A total of 440,850 Hoosiers have tested positive with the virus.
ISDH says 125 more Hoosiers have died from COVID-19. The newly-recorded deaths occurred between Nov. 18 and Dec. 15.
A total of 6,781 Hoosiers have died from the virus.
Another 320 “probable” deaths have occurred, but a positive test is not on record.
Vaccinations reach nursing homes; California faces surges of virus deaths
FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2020, file photo, University of Washington Medical Center Montlake campus pharmacy administration resident Derek Pohlmeyer, left, and UWMC pharmacy director Michael Alwan transport a box containing Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines toward a waiting vehicle headed to the UW Medical Center s other hospital campuses in Seattle. (Mike Siegel/The Seattle Times via AP, Pool, File)
by: ADAM GELLER and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press
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Dec 16, 2020 / 03:17 PM EST
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (AP) The first COVID-19 vaccinations are underway at U.S. nursing homes, where the virus has killed upwards of 110,000 people, even as the nation struggles to contain a surge so alarming that California is dispensing thousands of body bags and lining up refrigerated morgue trailers.
VP Pence likely to get coronavirus vaccine by Friday
Former Vice President Mike Pence is likely to receive the coronavirus vaccine by Friday, two sources familiar with the plans tell CNN.
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by: Kaitlan Collins and Maegan Vazquez, CNN
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Dec 15, 2020 / 04:30 PM EST
It’s unclear if he will receive it before President Donald Trump.
Tentative plans are being made for Pence to receive it on camera.
Earlier Tuesday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany repeated that Trump would be open to taking the coronavirus vaccine, but would not commit to the timing or the President being inoculated in public to inspire confidence in its efficacy. She also confirmed that senior administration officials will be injected with the vaccine in coming days to instill public confidence.
Dec 14, 2020 / 03:41 PM EST
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WISH) Some of the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine to arrive in Indiana were administered Monday to frontline health care workers in Fort Wayne, the Indiana State Department of Health said.
Those first doses went to a physician, a nurse, a respiratory therapist, a pharmacist, a patient care technician and an environmental services technician just after noon at Parkview Health. Clark Memorial Hospital in Jeffersonville also received initial doses of the vaccine on Monday.
Three additional hospitals including IU Health Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis are among the five locations slated to get vaccine doses first in the state.
Dec 14, 2020 / 10:44 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) There are close to 400,000 health care workers in Indiana.
The state is expected to receive 350,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine in the next 16 days. This week, five primary hospitals, including IU Health Methodist Hospital, and 50 additional hospitals and clinics are expected to receive a few thousand doses that will be given first to frontline staff who work directly with COVID-19 patients.
The very first batches of vaccine arrived in Indiana on Monday morning and were administered just after noon in Fort Wayne to health care workers.
Dr. Ram Yeleti of Community Health Network told I-Team 8 that some of the first people to receive the vaccination are health care workers and those in long-term health care facilities.