Smaller hospitals do not have the facilities or equipment to store Pfizer vaccine in ultracold freezers. Author: Rose McBride Updated: 5:13 PM CST December 11, 2020
CARROLL COUNTY, Ky. Kentucky should be able to start giving health care workers the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine next week.
The state will receive 38,025 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. Eleven hospitals will receive doses including three in Louisville.
But many hospitals in the area, including hospitals in rural areas, are not going to get any of those first doses.
Only one county in the state is out of the red zone for COVID-19 cases, with some rural areas having higher incidence rates than Jefferson County. Still, vaccine allocation is not about need it’s about resources.
Carrollton teenager injured in Saturday morning crash on Highway 65
A Carrollton teenager was injured in a single-vehicle crash early on Saturday morning on Highway 65.
The highway patrol reports 19-year-old Cordell Cooper was transported by private vehicle to Carroll County Memorial Hospital with minor injuries.
The crash happened at 22833 south Highway 65 when Cooper’s southbound 2013 Ford traveled off the roadway, struck a culvert and median, returned to the roadway, then left the roadway again, striking an embankment.
The vehicle received extensive damage, and the patrol reported Cooper was not wearing a seat belt.
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Carrollton teenager injured in crash on Highway 65
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The Highway Patrol reports a Carrollton resident sustained minor injuries when a vehicle ran off the road at 22833 Highway 65 in Carroll County on December 19
th at 2 am.
A private vehicle transported 19-year-old Cordell Cooper to the Carroll County Memorial Hospital of Carrollton.
The vehicle traveled south on U. S. 65 before running off the road, striking a median and a culvert, returning to the road, going off the road again, and hitting an embankment. The vehicle received extensive damage.
The Patrol notes Cooper did not wear a seat belt.
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Jeff Tindle has an ambulance sitting on his driveway that he would like to use.
The chief executive of Carroll County Memorial Hospital could have used it the time he drove an appendicitis patient in need of emergency surgery to another hospital in his Suburban because he said the Carroll County Ambulance District refused to do the transfer.
Or the time in October when a Carrollton police officer had to give an 18-year-old with a broken hand and an uncertain COVID-19 status a ride to the hospital because the same ambulance district did not respond to the scene.
Or the time in September when a Carrollton police captain made the 110-mile round trip to a hospital in Warrensburg to drive an emotionally disturbed patient who needed a transport because the ambulance district wouldn t do it, citing manpower issues, according to police records.
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