Coronavirus
by: Dr. Mary Gillis, D.Ed.
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Feb 26, 2021 / 09:08 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) This time last year, News 8 met Tyler Hoeppner. In between checking patient vitals and digging through doctors’ notes, the sports journalist turned nurse shared his story of taking on a new career.
Now, he’s sharing a different story what it’s like to be a front-line worker taking on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hoeppner with the rest of the doctors, nurses and IU Health Methodist Hospital staff was thrown into something unlike anything he’d ever seen before.
“Learning how to treat this thing? Nobody knew,” he said. “At the very beginning, it was like, if this is how it’s going to go, it’s going to be brutal because the amount of things we were doing at the pace we were doing them was just unheard of. The number of people we intubated on a shift…you just didn’t do.”
The pandemic put a stop to a lot of things, but it did not halt the creation, installation, and celebratory unveiling of a giant mural at Indianapolis International Airport (IND) honoring the life and legacy of Madam C.J. Walker, the first self-made Black female millionaire in the United States.
The artwork is hard to miss. Titled
Entrepreneurs Awakening: The Making of a Legacy, the mural is 11ft high and more than 75ft long. It was created by Indianapolis-based artist Tasha Beckwith and depicts how Sarah Breedlove became the wealthy, influential, and community-minded Madam Walker, whose Indianapolis-based Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company produced and marketed the line of Black hair care products she invented in the early 1900s.
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Feb 24, 2021 / 09:42 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) The vaccination guidelines are pretty clear if you are going by age alone, but a handful of clinics in Indiana have allowed ineligible people to get the vaccine.
On Wednesday, Dr. Kristina Box, Indiana’s health commissioner, would not name or say many clinics violated state vaccine guidelines. However, the state will take the violators off the list of clinics accepting new vaccination patients.
“A lot of times it has been centered around the eligibility to a waitlist and the importance of that waitlist reflecting either the current eligibility we have opened up at the state level or those age groups that are close to that,” Box said.